Around 8 a.m. Sunday morning, reports of a loud explosion and a fireball streaking through sky over the California/Nevada border had local law enforcement agencies, astronomers and doomsday soothsayers alike all scrambling for answers. The fireball was spotted as far as away as the Bay Area and Las Vegas before the meteor broke up over the Sierra Nevada and reportedly crashed to Earth in Nevada, just over the border from South Lake Tahoe. more ›

The Miller Twins, two performing young girls who grew up in the Bay Area performing on local TV show The Hoffman Hayride and others, just died in their home in South Lake Tahoe at the age of 73, within hours of each other, of apparent natural causes. They had lived a reclusive life for many years, distancing themselves from friends and relatives, and news media has been putting out a call for any known living kin who might, like, want their stuff. more ›

Just because we haven't seen him around these parts of the Internets lately, here's an ancient shot of Gov. (oy) Arnold Schwarzenegger taking some time to curl a dumbbell he found wildfire remains in South Lake Tahoe. A truly amazing shot, Jeff. more ›

If there's ever more proof needed that the end of the world is coming, we give you news that it snowed up in Tahoe today. Isn't this what happens in all the movies right before the end, you know, the freakish storms hit just around the time people who dismissed the scientists nobody believed start to believe? Didn't Nostradamus write about this as happening just before the apocalypse comes when some short little midget type person with a weird puffy hairdo gets the bomb? more ›

Drag-racing on 101 -- such a bad idea, even if you don't kill members of the Tongan royal family. Grieving Tongans have left so many mementos at the site of last Wednesday's accident that CHP determined the area was a traffic hazard and removed everything that had been left. When the reporter was there, six vehicles pulled off by the side of the road to pay their respects, which CHP says isn't the safest thing to do on 101 North. more ›

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