Nevada

Heavenly Mountain Resort has done it again, opening more skiing and snowboarding terrain on the strength of the West Coast’s largest snowmaking system, just in time for the upcoming holiday season.

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – Efforts by Gov. Brian Sandoval and state lawmakers to encourage new business creation, relocation and expansion in Nevada took a major step forward today when the Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee approved nearly $3.5 million to fund a new economic development office.

By Heather Segale
On January 5, 2012 from 2 to 5 p.m., the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center will host a winter-themed Family Science Day. Families are invited to explore the mysteries of snow and ice. Engaging activities will provide your child an opportunity to learn about the science of winter. Children will conduct scientific experiments, view snowflakes under a microscope, take a snow-core and determine the water content of snow, learn about wind chill and why some animals hibernate, and much more.

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - The Christmas tree was lit and the holiday hotcakes special for sale again Thursday as dozens of people gathered at an IHOP restaurant in Nevada's capital city as it reopen...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Behind the power of the West Coast's largest snowmaking system, Heavenly Mountain Resort opened Stagecoach Express on Wednesday, giving skiers and snowboarders top-to-bot...

By Chuck Allen / Nevada Highway Patrol
Several personnel from the Nevada Highway Patrol will each be awarded a Commendation Medal this Friday for their timely, professional and outstanding performance they displayed on the morning of September 6th, in Carson City.

Shortly before 9:00 am that morning, the Nevada Department of Public Safety-Communications Center began receiving information of an active shooter near the International House of Pancakes (IHOP) restaurant on South Carson Street.

By Don Quilici
With Christmas two weeks away, one of the best stocking stuffers for local anglers is a California fishing license. If you're planning to fish in the State of California in 2012, you'll need a new license as of Jan. 1.
You can purchase that license and any applicable stamp at a number of local outlets or on the Internet.
If you need to buy a license and stamps, here is some info:

The Great Recession continues to rear its head here at home, with demands on social services soaring and a genuine fear that South Shore’s food bank won’t be able to provide Christmas dinner for a record number of families in need.
For 30 years, the Christmas Cheer food bank has helped families celebrate Christmas with a traditional dinner of turkey and all the trimmings. However, with 800 families expected to be on the list of those to receive a dinner, the charity has only 75 donated turkeys and five hams to give and organizers say they are beyond being nervous.

South Lake Tahoe-based Weidinger Public Relations batted 1,000 at the recent Sierra Nevada Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America annual Silver Spikes program, winning awards in all thr...

Twelve Lake Tahoe-area ski resorts are offering two free Alpine or Nordic tickets for every purchase of a California or Nevada Lake Tahoe license plate between ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../specialty-t...

People parted with their money up and down Nevada in October. Casinos reported an 8.1 percent increase – or $961 million – compared to a year ago. ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../stateline-casino-win-up-...

The McDonald's Restaurants of Northern Nevada will be hosting a fundraiser for the family of JK Metzker.Metzker, who served as the Sports Director for KTVN-TV in Reno, died Nov. 13 after being hit ...

Tahoe in the fall, the tourists keep coming. The Las Vegas Strip was up 13.3 percent, downtown Vegas up 8.1 percent, and Reno down 12.3 percent, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board on Friday....

By Northern Nevada Business Weekly. Don Manoukian, owner of Knight International LLC, says a new brand of imported vodka that's garnering rave reviews ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../reno-based-impor...

By Sgt Jim Halsey, Public Information Officer, DCSO
On Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 at approximately 2:10 pm, deputies of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to what was reported as a dead body lying outside of a white truck in the Gardnerville Cemetery.
A DCSO deputy arrived on-scene approximately six minutes later and found an adult male, later identified as 77 year-old David Pendleton, in the cemetery near the described truck. Pendleton was holding a shotgun in his hands.

The Tahoe Fund announced today that 12 major Lake Tahoe-area ski resorts are offering two free Alpine or Nordic tickets for every purchase of a California or Nevada Lake Tahoe license plate between December 12 and April 15.

By Cheva Heck
The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management is working with permit-holder ARAMARK Parks and Destinations to pull three underground fuel storage tanks and remove contaminated soil at Zephyr Cove Resort. Zephyr Cove Resort is open for business as usual. The work will be visible to the highway and to resort visitors.

Attorneys General Kamala D. Harris of California and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada announced Tuesday that their states have entered into a joint investigation alliance designed to assist homeowners who have been harmed by misconduct and fraud in the mortgage industry.

By forging this alliance, California and Nevada will combine investigative resources, including litigation strategies, information, and evidence gathered through their respective ongoing investigations, assisting each state as it pursues independent prosecutions.

By the Nevada Department of Wildlife
After a five-year journey, the Nevada Department of Wildlife's (NDOW) first-ever license plate has been released!
Proceeds from the sale of the "Conserve Wildlife" plate will provide sorely needed funding for NDOW's wildlife education and volunteer programs.

RENO, Nev. (AP) - Nevada quarterback Cody Fajardo has been named the Western Athletic Conference freshman of the year.Fajardo led the WAC with a 71.4 percent completion rate. He didn't become the W...

By Northern Nevada Business Weekly. Nevada's advertising for the ski season in the Sierra Nevada this year targets nearby markets rather than distant cities. ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../nevada-lo...

A Total Maximum Daily Load is a regulatory term in the U.S. Clean Water Act describing a value of the maximum amount of a pollutant that a body of water can receive while still meeting water quality standards.

By Kristi Boosman
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and a delegation from the Lake Tahoe Aquatic Invasive Species Program presented to a consortium of public agencies, non-profits and interest group at Lake George, New York last month.

TRPA’s Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator Ted Thayer, Sudeep Chandra, Professor of Limnology from University Nevada Reno, and Marion Wittmann, Postdoctoral Research Associate from the University of Notre Dame and UC Davis, traveled to Lake George to speak about the Lake Tahoe Aquatic Invasive Species Program and ongoing research.

The state will team with California in 2013 to convince the U.S. Olympic Committee that the Lake Tahoe area would be the best place to host the games. ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../nevada-tourism-offic...