SF News Five Seriously Injured After Two Ski Lift Chairs Collide at Tahoe's Heavenly Resort A nightmare came true for several skiers at the Tahoe ski resort Heavenly Monday morning, as their ski lift chairs collided, and some victims reportedly fell 30 feet to the ground before being rushed to a hospital.
SF News Lake Tahoe Is Getting An Electric ‘Hydrofoil’ To Speed You Across the Lake In 30 Minutes Time The first ever electric hydrofoil watercraft in the US is coming to Lake Tahoe, promising to be the fastest craft on the water with "hydrofoil wings” that appear to make it fly.
Arts & Entertainment The First Tahoe Ski Resort Is Open, and the Rest Have Announced Their (Approximate) Opening Dates Pow! The powder of Mount Rose ski resort officially opened to skiers for the season Friday, and a flurry of other ski resorts have announced their prospective opening dates for the weeks to come.
SF News Royal Fire Near Lake Tahoe, Possibly Caused By Escaped Campfire, Burns 170 Acres A wildfire burning in the forest near Royal Gorge, west of Sugar Bowl and southwest of Truckee, has grown to 169 acres after breaking out Sunday afternoon.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two SF Giants Just Got Named to This Year’s MLB All-Star Team We have some new details on the Channing Tatum movie that’s been shooting near Golden Gate Park; a couple dozen East Bay parks that were closed for the heat wave have reopened; and the SF Giants just got a pitcher and outfielder named to the NL All-Star team for next week’s game.
SF News Lake Tahoe Expected to Fill Up This Spring, For the First Time Since 2019 Above-average snowpack in the Lake Tahoe basin has helped to fill up Lake Tahoe, which will be able to meet water demand for the next three years.
SF News SF Skier Rescued After Outdoor Overnight Ordeal In Lake Tahoe Wilderness A 34-year-old San Francisco man got a little off course at Lake Tahoe’s Kirkwood ski resort and ended up spending a night in the wilderness, but was eventually rescued by a cavalcade of search personnel and a CHP helicopter.
SF News [Update] One Confirmed Dead In Avalanche at Palisades Tahoe There was an avalanche Wednesday morning at Palisades Tahoe that reportedly buried multiple skiers who were among the first down a trail, and a search and rescue operation is underway.
SF News Remains of Zodiac Killer's Possible 'Victim 12' From Lake Tahoe Casino Finally ID'd A skull that was discovered in Placer County nearly four decades ago was recently identified through relational DNA tracing, and investigators say it belongs to a young woman who disappeared from a Lake Tahoe casino hotel in 1970.
SF News Tahoe to Get First Big Snowstorm of the Season on Saturday San Francisco will get a sprinkling of rain starting Saturday morning, but the storm system moving in from the north will be bringing the first major snowfall of the winter season to the Sierra.
SF News Shortest Day of the Year Around the Bay: Not Much Snow in Tahoe This Christmas Santa Clara and the 49ers are in another dispute over that big Christmas Night game; a police chase rattled the Precita Park area last night; and the Christmas weekend snow depth at Tahoe will likely disappoint skiers.
SF News Ski Season Is Officially Here as First Tahoe Ski Resort Opens on Friday Lake Tahoe-area ski season has its first ski slope opening set for Friday, as Tahoe’s highest base elevation resort Mount Rose opens Friday, November 10, and more ski resort openings are scheduled for the weeks to follow.
SF News Former MLB Player and Accomplice Arrested in Connection With Deadly 2021 Lake Tahoe Shooting Former pro pitcher Danny Serafini, 49, and another woman were arrested in Nevada for allegedly shooting Serafini’s mother-in-law and father-in-law inside their Tahoe home, which left the father-in-law dead and Tahoe area residents stunned.
SF News The Bidens Are In Tahoe, and Two F-16 Fighter Jets Just Had to Chase a Plane Out the Restricted Airspace There President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden have been spending the week on vacation in Lake Tahoe, and this morning two fighter jets had to be deployed by NORAD to chase a private plane out of the temporarily restricted airspace around the lake.
SF News ‘Succession’ Cast Member, One Other Person Bitten by River Otters East of Tahoe The hot-tempered otter summer continues, this time in the northern Sierra Nevada region, as river otters bit people in two separate incidents, one involving an actor who was on “Succession.”
SF News Twenty Lake Tahoe-Area Bears Have Been Hit by Cars in the Last Month Alone A troublesome trend in Lake Tahoe, where “40 to 50” bears have been hit by cars this summer, with 20 of these collisions happening in just the last month.
SF News 25-Year-Old and 24-Year-Old From Bay Area Meet With Misadventures at Waterfalls Over Holiday Weekend A 25-year-old woman from San Francisco was killed Tuesday falling down a waterfall in South Lake Tahoe, and a 24-year-old man from Petaluma is missing and still not found after meeting with a similar misadventure Sunday in Yosemite.
SF News Winter Storm Bonus: Lake Tahoe Bluer Than It’s Been In Nearly 40 Years A combination of fresh precipitation and a resurgence in the population of zooplankton has Lake Tahoe appearing bluer than it has since the 1980s, according to UC Davis researchers who measure the lake’s water clarity levels.
Arts & Entertainment Larry Ellison Has Sold Tahoe's Cal Neva Resort to the Proper Hotel People, Who Will Now Renovate It Six years after purchasing the storied Cal Neva Resort & Casino property on Lake Tahoe's north shore, billionaire Larry Ellison is reselling it at a tidy profit to a hotel group who will now, finally, renovate and reopen the place.
SF News Tahoe Bears Are Waking Up From Hibernation Hungry and Buried In Snow. Watch Out. Wildlife officials are bracing for more human-bear encounters than ever as this snow-covered spring in the Tahoe area is going to make for more challenging foraging for the hungry animals.
SF News Tahoe Sees Second-Snowiest Winter on Record; Snow Buries Ski Lifts in Sierras Even the tops of the ski lifts are buried in snow in the Lake Tahoe area, as this winter is now officially the second-snowiest season ever since records began being kept in 1946.
SF News KGO-TV Reporter Luz Peña Recovering From Near-Fatal Ski Accident in Tahoe You haven’t seen KGO’s Luz Peña on the ABC7 news for four weeks, and it turns out that she suffered a ski accident that left her unconscious and unable to breathe, and she nearly needed to have a leg amputated.
SF News Snow Is Literally Crushing Buildings In Tahoe Area The weight of massive snow accumulation on rooftops has led to at least two destroyed buildings in the Tahoe area and Sierra foothills, with more perhaps to come.
SF News Avalanche Buries Tahoe Apartment Building, Several Areas Evacuated Over Avalanche Risk The first two floors of this three-story apartment building near Palisades Tahoe were completely engulfed by an avalanche Tuesday night, and while everyone inside was rescued, avalanche orders remain in effect in parts of the Lake Tahoe area.
SF News People Being Warned Not to Drive to Tahoe Today/Tonight Anyone looking to get a jump on ski season and this first big snowfall up around Lake Tahoe should probably have left yesterday, as snowy roadways are already causing problems for drivers in the area.
