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.
SF News Winter Arrives Early As Tahoe Gets A Few Inches Of September Snow A cold front moving through the state on Saturday dropped snow on parts of Yosemite and the Lake Tahoe region, with Squaw Valley showing about two inches of snow on the ground on Sunday.
SF News Lake Tahoe Has Risen Eight Feet In Three Years, Beaches Shrink After Snowmelt Lake Tahoe is getting very high after spring and summer snowmelt continues to fill it, and soon officials will begin releasing water into the Truckee River.
SF News Confessed Bay Area Killer Linked Through DNA To Tahoe Cold Case From 1982 A confessed murderer who committed suicide in jail while awaiting trial in 1983 has been definitively linked to the 1982 murder of Mary Edith Silvani near Lake Tahoe
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Quietly Purchased Two Adjacent Lake Tahoe Estates For $59M Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted to shroud his purchase of two Lake Tahoe compounds in secrecy, but now the Wall Street Journal and Business Insider have splashed photos of the properties all over the internet.
SF News Highways 50 and 89 Shut Down Due To Avalanches Near Lake Tahoe The massive amounts of snow in the Sierra have once again shut down two main routes in and out of the Tahoe Basin. And the road closures mean traffic headaches for spring breakers who might be trying to reach the area Monday.
SF News Tahoe Commute Became a Nightmare After Sierra Gets Record February Snow Those who braved the President's Day weekend trek up to Lake Tahoe faced 14-hour drives and worse after major snowfall, but there was some epic skiing in store for those who finally made
Arts & Entertainment Oracle Billionaire Larry Ellison Is Buying Frank Sinatra's Old Cal Neva Resort By Lake Tahoe It looks like Larry Ellison wants to put his stamp on the Tahoe scene, and it's going to be by way of revamping a kitschy throwback to the Rat Pack era in the
