SF News Dog Goes Missing In Tahoe Wilderness, Emerges Relatively Unscathed Two Years Later Today in life imitating Disney movies: a Golden Retriever named Murphy has been reunited with her owners after wandering away from their camp site in the Tahoe National Forest nearly two years ago.
SF News Monster Goldfish Invading Lake Tahoe! Do you suffer from a fear of swimming in lakes (or "limnophobia")? Are you leery of having something slimy and scaly brush up against you whilst blithely enjoying a day at the lake?
SF News Several South Lake Tahoe Casinos Flooded After Freezing Temps Harrah's, Harveys, and the Horizon casinos in South Lake Tahoe all suffered flooding yesterday following below-zero temps on the weekend that froze sprinkler pipes and caused them to burst. According to the AP,
SF News Petaluma Teen Missing Since New Year's Eve Found Dead Alyssa Byrne, 19, of Petaluma had been missing since New Year's Eve at a Lake Tahoe casino. Authorities have confirmed that the body of missing Petaluma teen has been recovered. Byrne had attended
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Rescued Bobcat Kitten Deemed 'Too Nice' To Live In The Wild Meet Chips, the bobcat kitten deemed "too nice" to return to the wilderness after being rescued from a 75,000-acre fire northwest of Lake Tahoe back in August. Chips was a mere three
SF News Tahoe Report: Mountains Are Open Early, If You Don't Need Much Snow After last year's abysmal season in Tahoe, we're holding out for a more bountiful season this year. While we definitely won't see the best powder days until well after Christmas, several of the
SF News Pieces Of Tahoe Meteor Found In Small Town Parking Lot NASA Astronomers and amateur asteroid hunters alike believe they have tracked down fragments of the fireball that exploded somewhere over the Sierra Nevadas early Sunday morning. By analyzing a weather radar loop, Dr.
SF News Heading To Lake Tahoe? Take Alternate Route As I-80 Is Shutdown If you're heading to Lake Tahoe today beware that, as of this morning, the Yolo Causeway has been shutdown, casing a massive backup. Police have closed the stretch of I-80 as they search
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Squaw Valley Debuts World's First Ski-Thru Starbucks At Lake Tahoe's Squaw Valley, the ski resort and the ubiquitous latte purveyor have streamlined skiers and riders' caffeine-grabbing process with the world's first Starbucks location to feature a ski-up to-go window. Now
SF News A Meteorologist Explains Why There's No Snow In Tahoe After spending the past few weeks staring at the skies and searching for storm clouds over the Sierras, the locals up in Tahoe have finally sought out an expert opinion on why there's
SF News No Seriously, There's No Snow in Tahoe Things haven't gotten any better up in the Sierras after the complete lack of snow made national headlines last week. The high temperature for Squaw Valley was expected to hit 65 degrees today
SF News There's Absolutely No Snow In Tahoe We've been getting our share of chilly air here in the city, but this December dry spell hasn't exactly done much for the base on the slopes up in the Sierras. In fact,
SF News Tahoe Ski Season Will Get Much Shorter In Coming Years, Says UC Davis Study A new and alarming study out of U.C. Davis projects that snowfall in Tahoe will decrease by a third in the next forty years, and by two thirds by the end of
SF News 1991 Kidnapped Girl Found Alive Yesterday, a woman walked into the Concord Police Department claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped in 1991 in Lake Tahoe. Dugard, now 29, "was last seen on June 10, 1991
SF News UPDATE: Two San Francisco Skiers <del>Still Missing</del> Found Safe Patrick Frost, 35, and Christopher Gerwig, 32, of San Francisco are still nowhere to be found since reported missing since reported missing last Saturday night at Alpine Meadows, just north of Lake Tahoe.
misc Feel the Rain on Your Skin Get out your brellies, Wellies, and slickers - the rain is on its way. Meteorologists are expecting the rain to start falling this afternoon. Expect high winds and heavy rain. Flooding is a
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour 09 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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Tesla Motors' Roadster- the Electric Edsel? Are there any similarities here with this car? Some hyperbolic coverage from the MSM makes us wonder a bit. Here's an opinion from Washington Post-affiliated Slate - the author was "unbelievably stoked", even
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Large Lake Tahoe fire under control. [Oakland Tribune, via AP] -- Small Presidio fire controlled, injures no one. [Examiner, via BCN] -- Two SF hit-and-runs kill two. [Chron] -- Carlos Cruz, 25,
Arts & Entertainment nugget o' history: Mark Twain torched Lake Tahoe? The wildfire raging up near Lake Tahoe reminded us of our dear old cousin Mark. Mark Twain, that is, and what we remembered was his own brush with accidental arson up Tahoe way.
Arts & Entertainment Lake Tahoe: Open for Business Olympic Valley, home of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, showing a dusting of snow. After getting off to a slow start, it seems the ski season at the Lake Tahoe area is finally
SF News It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas? Or maybe not. The snow started early this morning and continued into mid-morning, leaving three to six inches on the ground. All roads and passes were allowed to be open but chains were
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Weekend Getaway: Tahoe North Shore We stayed at a friend's beautiful home in Incline Village, which is just over the border in Nevada. Unfortunately, the county is too populous to have legal prostitution, but if you're in to
