SF News Oak Fire Smoke Floats to Tahoe, Not Bay Area, So Far An air quality advisory issued by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has been extended to Thursday, and we may still see some haze from the drifting smoke of the Oak Fire here around the Bay. But so far, it hasn't happened as predicted.
SF News Lake Tahoe Continues Getting Less Clear As Officials Pledge to Reverse the Trend The famous clarity and blueness of Lake Tahoe has been slowly changing in recent years, thanks to a combination of erosion, litter, and of course wildfire smoke and ash.
SF News Body of Missing Truckee Man Found Miles From Ski Area Where He'd Parked The remains of 43-year-old skier Rory Angelotta, who went missing on Christmas Day, have been recovered. But his body was found quite far from the Northstar resort where he had been skiing that day.
SF News Very Good Dog Lost In Caldor Fire Turns Up Alive In the Snow, More Than Four Months After Disappearing Meet Russ, the pit bull-terrier mix who somehow fended for himself in South Lake Tahoe for several months after being separated from his family in the Caldor fire, but was found alive and is now reunited with his humans.
SF News Helmet Cam Video Captures Near-Death Tahoe Ski Stunt Gone Wrong, as Skier Nearly Suffocates Immersed in Snow This daring ski jump and flip nearly turned fatal at Palisades Tahoe, and the skier’s helmet cam video is both exhilarating and absolutely terrifying.
SF News Castro Valley Man Drives 15 Hours, Via Las Vegas, to Avoid Tahoe Snow Traffic A Bay Area man and his girlfriend took the really long way home after spending Christmas weekend in the Tahoe area, in order to avoid horrendous traffic and closed freeways due to the snow.
SF News Enjoy This Dry Day — Lots More Rain on Its Way, and Much Snow Up in Tahoe This is the last dry day for the Bay Area for the next week or so, and it is now guaranteed to be a white — maybe even white-out — Christmas up in Tahoe.
Arts & Entertainment The New Name For Squaw Valley? Palisades Tahoe A year after the Squaw Valley Ski Resort announced it would be dropping its racist and sexist name, the corporation has revealed what its new name will be: Palisades Tahoe.
SF News South Lake Tahoe Spared Another Night From Caldor Fire Winds cooperated Wednesday night and Thursday morning, and firefighters continue to keep the Caldor Fire several miles away from Lake Tahoe, and outside of the city of South Lake Tahoe, but the flames continue advancing east toward the Nevada border.
SF News South Lake Tahoe Evacuation Causes Major Traffic Jam; Caldor Fire Advances Into Edge of Tahoe Basin The Caldor Fire continued its steady advance toward the Tahoe Basin on Monday amid a mass evacuation of South Lake Tahoe. But so far most of the flames have been held back by the granite outcroppings around Lower Echo Lake and Lake Aloha.
SF News New Evacuation Orders Hit Most of South Lake Tahoe as Caldor Fire Inches Closer Parts of South Lake Tahoe are now under evacuation orders after spending the weekend under evacuation warnings, and the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort remains a staging area for the firefighting effort.
SF News Fire Evacuation Warning Hits Tahoe Basin For First Time in 14 Years An evacuation warning has come to part of the Tahoe Basin, in the first time since 2007 that a wildfire has threatened the area — though firefighters continue to say that they will try to prevent any flames from entering the basin.
SF Politics Senate Passes Infrastructure Bill That Includes Money for Blackout Prevention, Lake Tahoe Restoration The Senate on Tuesday passed the $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill in a bipartisan 69-30 vote, handing President Biden a win. But how much of that money is going to funnel to Bay Area projects?
SF News Large Rockslide Cuts Off US-50 Route Into South Lake Tahoe A massive rockslide is blocking Highway 50 just outside of South Lake Tahoe, preventing traffic from moving in either direction on Friday morning.
SF News Roof Avalanche That Buried Truckee Teen For Hours Highlights Snow Dangers Up North People traveling to Tahoe this weekend to take advantage of the massive snowfall this week are being warned of major avalanche potential. And the story of a Truckee boy who was buried alive in a roof avalanche last night can serve as a warning.
SF news Humpday Headlines: Tahoe Resorts Brace for Skiing Crowds Carmen Chu is San Francisco's new City Administrator, wind blew a big rig into a jackknife on the Bay Bridge, and restaurant workers will be prioritized for vaccines under the state's new plans.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lake Tahoe Shuts Down to Tourists, Again Newsom says the state will get 642,000 more vaccine doses from Moderna in a few weeks, three South Bay hospitals are now out of ICU beds, and Napa and Sonoma wineries remain open for tastings.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Squaw Valley To Drop Its Racist Name Squaw Valley will officially be dropping the name its had for 71 years after realizing it's offensive, Folsom Street is getting weekly Sunday street closures through October, and Wise Sons is merging with Oakland's Beauty's Bagels.
SF News Tahoe Residents Plan Weekend Protest Telling Tourists To Stay Home In what's likely to be a futile effort to discourage people from coming to Lake Tahoe from outside the area this summer, some residents of South Lake Tahoe are planning a demonstration Friday afternoon.
SF News South Lake Tahoe Prepares to Fine Tourists If They Show Up for Memorial Day Weekend While second homeowners may be allowed to stop through if not entirely welcome in the Tahoe area, tourists are not, and anyone trying to quietly Airbnb their house might face fines as well.
SF News Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts Shutting Down Sunday The next shoe to drop in the coronavirus pandemic is the early end to ski season in the Sierra — though the resorts say they will reassess the situation in a week.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Stunt Skier Backflips Over Highway 50 In Tahoe Almost exactly one year ago, noted professional skier Josh Daiek completed a stunt he'd been eyeing for years at Echo Summit Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe — a ski jump over Highway 50. It was all a matter of waiting for the right snow.
SF News Avalanche at Tahoe's Alpine Meadows Kills One, Seriously Injures Another An avalanche Friday morning has taken the life of one skier at the Alpine Meadows Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe, and a second skier has reportedly suffered serious "lower body" injuries, with several other people possibly injured as well.
SF News If You're Planning To Get To Tahoe For Thanksgiving You Should've Left Monday I-80 is seeing its first snow-related shutdown of the season up in the Sierra as big snows arrive with this winter storm. And this means even heavier traffic on Highway 50 and a standstill on 80 Tuesday afternoon near Alta, 30 miles northeast of Auburn.
Arts & Entertainment Watch a Bear Get Himself Un-Stuck From a Tahoe Dumpster A black bear known to local authorities as "T-Shirt" got himself trapped in a dumpster in the North Lake Tahoe town of King's Beach early Monday morning.
