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Lake Tahoe watercraft inspectors identified highly invasive golden mussels on a vessel at the Alpine Meadows inspection ...
The Rubicon Trail is a highly valued off-highway vehicle recreational trail that passes through both El Dorado and Placer ...
Two abandoned cables containing lead lie at the bottom of Lake Tahoe, have been lying there for decades, and will continue to lie there, likely until a contentious lawsuit that pits a publicly traded ...
Since August 2022, when Moonshine Ink last reported on Truckee Artist Lofts, the affordable housing project has drawn closer to its identity as the artistic haven it’s intended to be. Art shows are ...
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798 poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the image of an ice-covered ship near the South Pole makes one shudder with cold. It wasn’t long ago, on a very cold morning in ...
In the mid-1970s, if you were a Tahoe/Truckee music lover, that probably meant listening to KSML, “The Radio Voice of the Secret Mountain Laboratory.” On local airwaves from late ’74 until early ’77, ...
Chris Heasman, a writer in Kenmore, Scotland, first learned of Discovery Land Company, an Arizona-based real estate developer and operator of luxury private residential communities and resorts, when ...
They’re a critical part of Truckee/North Tahoe’s ski resort operations each winter. According to federal data from 2022, over 1,700 temporary workers — classified as J-1s by the U.S. government — work ...
Hopkins Village is an affordable workforce housing development set in a quiet patch of forest on the northwestern edge of Martis Valley. Modular duplex homes stand in a row on a two-block street. It ...
Tahoe Forest Hospital District has had its share of problems over the past few years, most notably medical staff discontent with the former CEO, Harry Weis. Medical personnel had voiced their concerns ...
The realization often comes with speechlessness. Patty Baird, owner of the Cedar House Sport Hotel in Truckee, has posed a question to fellow business owners in the Truckee/North Tahoe region: “What ...
The Truckee Tahoe Airport District is often portrayed as the golden goose: flush with money and willing to fund community organizations and projects — nearly $20 million has gone from the airport into ...