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 Bear Hank the Tank's Reign of Terror Ends In Capture — and a New Home South Lake Tahoe's most wanted fugitive, the massive black bear nicknamed Hank the Tank behind 21 home break-ins, was apprehended Friday and will be relocated to a wildlife refuge in Colorado.
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 Renowned South Lake Tahoe Pro Skier Kyle Smaine Killed In Avalanche In Japan A former world champion halfpipe skier and gold medal winner, Tahoe-based freestyle pro skier Kyle Smaine, died Sunday morning in an avalanche in Nagano, Japan.
SF News It Ain’t Just Hank the Tank — DNA Shows At Least Four Different Bears Plundering Tahoe Homes A 500-pound bear blamed for ransacking nearly 30 South Lake Tahoe homes for food, who has become a massive internet celebrity in the process, is partially exonerated as DNA evidence shows this has been the work of at least four different bears.
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 Hundreds In South Lake Tahoe Give Heroes' Sendoff to Caldor Fire Firefighters With the Caldor Fire now 71% contained and the city of South Lake Tahoe deemed safe to return to, some firefighters were packing up to leave town in recent days, and a large group of city residents gathered to cheer for them on Tuesday.
SF News Tahoe Bears Took Advantage Of Empty Neighborhoods, Went to Town on Trash Cans, Rotting Food The bears of the South Lake Tahoe area had a ball last week tearing through evacuated neighborhoods, breaking into homes and garages where they smelled food, and generally making a huge, stinking mess.
SF News Evacuations Lifted In South Lake Tahoe As Winds Calm Down Evacuation orders in areas close to Lake Tahoe, including the city of South Lake Tahoe, were downgraded to warnings on Sunday, allowing thousands of residents to return home almost a week after being forced out by threatening flames.
SF News Black Bear Euthanized for Burns Suffered in Caldor Fire California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials had to make a tough call, with a bear they could not transport to safety, and would have burned alive in the fire as it could no longer walk.
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 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.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Bears Emerging From Hibernation Explore Tahoe Garage It's that time of year again, and as the snow is finally melting around Lake Tahoe, bears are waking up, showing up scavenging, and they're hungry. Video posted to Facebook by South Lake
SF News Emerald Fire Breaks Out Overnight In South Lake Tahoe, Forces Evacuation Of 500 Homes A wildfire that has already scorched 200 acres broke out overnight in the area of Camp Richardson, near Cascade Lake and Emerald Bay in South Lake Tahoe. As the Associated Press reports, the
SF News Plague Bacterium Turns Up In South Lake Tahoe In some not-great epidemiological news, bacteria that cause plague sometimes called bubonic plague have been discovered in fleas found on a chipmunk in South Lake Tahoe, prompting The California Department of Public Health
SF News Meteor Reportedly Crashes To Earth Near Lake Tahoe, Fails To Obliterate All Of Humanity 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
SF News Bay Area Singing Twins Die Within Hours Of One Another 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
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
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
