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The Nevada Division of Emergency Management/Homeland Security and the National Weather Service are partnering together to educate the citizens of Nevada on National Flood Safety Awareness Week, March 12-16.

According to the National Weather Service, Floods and Flash Floods are the #1 weather-related killer in the United States and can occur any time of the year. This is why the Nevada Division of Emergency Management and the National Weather Service Offices in Reno, Las Vegas, and Elko want to help spread the word about being flood safe.

The following letter from former South Lake Tahoe City Manager David Jinkens was sent to Jody Jones, District 3 director of Caltrans in Marysville.

Tahoe Valley Elementary School was briefly locked down at around 10:30 a.m. after a report of a distraught man with a gun inside a home in the 800 block of Tahoe Island Drive.
The man walked out of a home, speaking on a phone, and was detained by South Lake Tahoe police and El Dorado County sheriff's deputies. According to police scanner traffic, Tahoe Valley school was locked down, briefly, as authorities circled the perimeter of the home, cutting off traffic in the area.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - As Olympic leaders gather for their first executive board meeting of 2012, there is one thorny issue that won't be on the agenda for approval.The long-running revenue n...

CARSON CITY – Nevada’s jobless rate fell from a revised 13 percent in December to 12.7 percent in January, down from 13.8 percent a year ago and a peak of 14 percent in October 2010. The number of unemployed Nevadans remained relatively flat at 174,700, but is down 16,300 from the same month last year.

South Lake Tahoe Fire Department offers CPR classes to the public every third Saturday of the month. Classes take place at Fire Station #1 at Ski Sun Blvd. For more information or to register, call (530)542-6161.

Come to the Coyote Grill at Round Hill for $1 chili to ward away the cold! All proceeds benefit the South Tahoe Chamber of Commerce. The South Tahoe Chamber is an independent, local community oriented organization, helping to create and promote events like the Meyers Tree Lighting and the Lake Tahoe Home and Garden Show. Come and show your support!

For local business owners who are looking to rent desk space or an office, call Substitute Personnel. Sharing the space helps with rent and utilities, and they may be able to offer needed business services as well. Location is in the center of town near Sierra Tract.
Desk space could start as low as $250 per month including utilities and snow removal; separate office space would be $600 per month including utilities. Space includes furnishings,shared kitchen area and bathroom (not wheelchair accessible).

H2O at Home will present its innovative line of natural and chemical-free organic products designed for living a safer, simpler life from 4 to 7 p.m. on March 13 at Blue Angel Cafe, 1132 Ski Run Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. Damien Douchet, CEO of H2O at Home, will be present the benefits of organic product lines at this free event. Enjoy light refreshments and go home with a free sample. The H20 at Home advisors are Tiara Wasner, Tifney Spoelstra, Machele Alviso and Linda Benson of South Lake Tahoe.

A Fair Oaks, Calif., couple are starting off life together on a high note by winning a $10,000 Tahoe South Wedding. TahoeWeddings’ Facebook fans voted from three finalists to march the couple down the aisle in Tahoe South.

ELKO, Nev. (AP) - A U.S. Forest Service regional official on Monday defended the agency's decision to close some roads in national forests across the West as an unpopular but necessary response to ...

A grant to the U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will help develop a “Children’s Forest” for exploration and education in the Pope-Baldwin Recreation Area, off Highway 89 near South Lake Tahoe.

Douglas County authorities seek the public's help in locating several suspects involved in an attempt to cash a stolen check on Saturday at a drive-thru window at Bank of America on Topsy Lane in north Douglas County near Carson City.
The primary suspect, an unidentified male adult, attempted to cash the stolen check at 11:15 a.m. on Saturday while using the drive-thru teller window, said Douglas County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Jim Halsey.

Just a reminder for our next Winter Speaker. Mark McLaughlin, local author of "Longboards to Olympics: A Century of Tahoe Winter Sports", presents stories and photos of the men and women who made Tahoe a world class ski mecca. The presentation begins at 6 p.m. on March 14 at the Explore Tahoe: An Urban Trailhead
4114 Lake Tahoe Blvd, in the Heavenly Village. Special parking rate of $5 offered in the public parking garage after 4pm.

Hello, fellow anglers. So happy to say we turn our clocks ahead this weekend. More fishing time and outdoor evening time. Before we get to our local fishing report, I would like to make a clarifica...

MINDEN, Nev. - The new year brought a spike in unemployment in Douglas County, according to data released Monday by Nevada's Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.The unemployment r...

Sepp Benedicter was a famous Austrian ski instructor who for some reason spent a lot of years in Southern California converting sun worshippers to skiers.My first experience with him was watching h...