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Mother Nature dropped enough snow in the Lake Tahoe basin to allow many winter based operations to get back to business.

Borges Sleigh Rides hadn't been able to run their horse drawn sleigh rides over snow covered meadows since Christmas. On Friday, their staff was keeping busy while enjoying being on the snow again as the sun peaked from behind clouds.

Operations had shifted over to running carriage rides at the Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel. Those will continue, weather permitting, along with the sleigh rides.

Since there is a lack of snow through the Sierra Nevada, visitors and locals in the Lake Tahoe basin are enjoying things that are normally reserved for the summer months.

Heavenly Mountain Resort's proposal to expand to year round, non-skiing activities is now under review by the U.S. Forest Service, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board. Heavenly's plan is to create a summer experience for guests with the addition of zipline and skycycle canopy tours, a mountain bike park, a ropes course, water activities, hiking trails,mountain excursion tours and nature interpretation.

Dubbed the "All Star Panel," a group of long time local residents shared stories of a South Lake Tahoe most of us never experienced. The seven panelists have lived in Lake Tahoe a combined 600 plus years and shared some great stories with the overflowing crowd at Camp Richardson Lodge on Tuesday evening. In fact, the number of long time locals in the audience was very evident since their combined years of living in Lake Tahoe was over 1880!

Dave Wakeman, South Lake Tahoe resident since 1947

The South Lake Tahoe Police Department responded to the following calls:

Arrests

9/27
Battery on the 900 block of Friday Avenue
Drug offense on the 1000 block of Emerald Bay Road

9/28
Tampering with a vehicle on the 400 block of Ala Wai
DUI on the corner of Reno Avenue & Chris Avenue

9/29
Evading on the 900 block of Star Lake Road
Child Abuse on Lake Tahoe Blvd

9/30
Drunk in Public on the 900 block of Bal Bijou Road
Drunk in Public on the 3500 block of Lake Tahoe Blvd

10/2
Unlicensed Driver on the corner of Sky Meadows Ct and Tahoe Keys Blvd

Geotours of the Lake Tahoe basin will highlight environmentally friendly activities during the Tahoe Geotourism Expo held September 7 - 8, 2013. Participants can 17 different tours including an Upper Truckee River kayak tour, an Al Tahoe Heritage Walk, a Tahoe Photo Tour and Wild Mustangs in the Meadow. For more information, click on the tour title below.

Saturday, September 7

Birds of the Wetland -Free 3 hour guided tour of the Upper Truckee marsh.

The love and support of Lake Tahoe was on full display at the Tahoe Fund annual Founders Circle dinner on Sunday August 18. They raised more than $300,000 for the organization and four Signature Projects around the Lake. Tahoe Fund donors were joined by Senators Dianne Feinstein and Harry Reid and Governors Jerry Brown and Brian Sandoval, as well as special surprise guest Vice President Al Gore, as the public and private communities joined together to celebrate the work of the Tahoe Fund to restore and improve the Lake Tahoe environment.

Here is this week's fishing report for rivers, lakes and streams in Nevada, Northern California and the Sierra. This report is for the week of Aug. 1-6.

Heavenly Mountain Resort at Lake Tahoe has submitted a proposal to the USDA Forest Service and Tahoe Regional Planning Agency for expansions to its on-mountain summer activities, as part of Vail Resorts’ Epic Discovery, a Summer Mountain Adventure.

Headed to Lake Tahoe for the Independence Day holiday? The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit asks residents and visitors to help protect public safety and the environment, and keep wildfire prevention in mind while celebrating.

Possession of fireworks of any kind, including sparklers, is illegal in the Lake Tahoe Basin and campfires are not permitted on National Forest beaches or in the general forest. For those planning to barbecue on the beach, the Forest Service requires the use of portable gas stoves.

Several Lake Tahoe area nonprofit organizations and agencies will receive financial aid this year through partnerships announced Monday by the United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra.

The partnerships are aimed to address issues identified in each of the Lake Tahoe area communities, said Karen Barsell, CEO and president of United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra.

California and Nevada residents can take advantage of the 35 inches of new Tahoe snow with two free lift tickets through the popular “Plates for Powder” program offered through the Tahoe Fund. Purchase a new California or Nevada Tahoe license plate and you are eligible for two free Alpine or Nordic lift tickets. Tickets are available at 11 participating Tahoe resorts.

Throughout the past month, skiers and snowboarders have descended upon Kirkwood and Alpine Meadows to compete in the first two stops of the Rahlves' Banzai Tour.The four-stop tour will now swing th...

A lawsuit was filed in federal district court today against the first significant update to environmental protection standards at Lake Tahoe since 1987, a move that rolls back the clock nearly that far on efforts to restore the Lake’s fragile ecosystem, according to the bi-state Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA), the defendant in the case.

Winter is usually a slow time for a wildlife rescue center at Lake Tahoe, but this year is different. The center has more orphaned bear cubs than ever before. The good news is, they are all healthy and will be returned to the wild. ABC7 News took a look at what it takes to give a baby bear a second chance at life.

You may remember some bear cubs we showed you last summer when they were confiscated in Nevada County, taken from a man who was trying to sell them. One little cub was found near Alpine Meadows Ski Resort. Her mother was illegally killed by a hunter using dogs.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Governing Board approved an annual update to the Aquatic Invasive Species Watercraft Inspection Program during their January meeting on Wednesday. The approval keeps nearly all boater fees the same and improves efficiency of service at watercraft inspection stations around the Lake Tahoe Basin in an effort to keep the $1.4 million inspection program in the black, according to agency officials.

The Rahlves’ Banzai Tour hosted this winter at several Lake Tahoe resorts has a new sponsor. Bank of the West has signed on as the presenting sponsor of the downhill ski and snowboard event created by Daron Rahlves, considered among the most decorated American downhill and Super G skier in U.S. history. The tour spans four weekends from Feb. 2 – March 10 at four of Lake Tahoe resorts.

The Vikings and Warriors hit the slopes with top times to kick off the high school ski season. The South Tahoe boys and girls teams both claimed first place overall at the Alpine Meadows opener ...

TAHOE/TRUCKEE - Two local men died from injuries suffered in avalanches that occurred Monday at two Tahoe-area ski resorts, a day after a major storm system dumped more than 4 feet of heavy snow th...

OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. - A ski patroller at Alpine Meadows ski resort near Lake Tahoe was air-lifted to a Reno hospital Monday morning after he was buried in an avalanche, a resort official said.Ac...

TAHOE CITY, Calif. - Alpine Meadows Ski Resort is mourning the loss of one its own.Annalise Kjolhede, 24, a ski instructor with the resort's Kids Ski School, died Tuesday evening, following a skiin...

Alpine Meadows - Plan to open Dec. 7Boreal - Open, 24 - 36 base 3 of 41 trails, 8 percent open, 1 of 8 lifts.Heavenly - Open, 18 - 24 base 2 of 97 trails, 1 percent open, 11 acres, 2 of 29 lifts.Ho...