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ROSEVILLE, Calif. — As part of the launch of its 150th anniversary celebration website, Union Pacific Railroad will award more than $35,000 in prizes to the top entries that remake the company's classic 1970s television commercial, “We... more... |
ROSEVILLE, Calif. — As part of the launch of its 150th anniversary celebration website, Union Pacific Railroad will award more than $35,000 in prizes to the top entries that remake the company's classic 1970s television commercial, “We... more... |
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. — The 2012 weather clock continues to tick against what is looking increasingly likely to be a below normal winter for precipitation. But 60 years ago, residents in the Tahoe-Truckee region were battling the Storm King in what...
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TRUCKEE, Calif. — Sierra College's Humanities professor Toby Terrell, Ph.D. will present “2012 — The end or the beginning?” at Sierra College, Friday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m. as part of the Experts & Insights Dean Lecture Series.
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TAHOE, Calif. — California State Park Interpretive Specialist Lindsay Harbison will lead a Snowshoe Through History hike along Lake Tahoe's magical west shore at Ed Z'Berg Sugar Pine Point State Park Saturday, Jan. 28. This easy and fun...
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OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. — Squaw Valley Institute announced its Welcome Home Event for The Push, a Tahoe-based team which made history Jan. 17 with the first adaptive athlete Grant Korgan trekking to the South Pole. The event and presentation is set...
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HOMEWOOD, Calif. — Before you even open the Tahoe Maritime Museum doors you feel history is waiting to be discovered. The sign hanging outside the building along Highway 89 in Homewood reads: Tahoe Maritime Museum, Living History. The next clue is...
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. — Sixty years ago Truckee-Tahoe residents were enduring one of the worst winters ever recorded in the Sierra Nevada. During the winter of 1951-52, vicious snowstorms pummeled the region for months on end. The relentless storms...
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. — It's working. Sunday, Native American adults and youth held hands with the public in a traditional “Round Dance” asking for spiritual help to bring snow to the Lake Tahoe region.
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HOMEWOOD, Calif. — North Tahoe has a rich Olympic Heritage. This heritage and “keeping the flame alive” was celebrated Wednesday evening, Jan. 11, 2012 at a fundraiser/mixer at the West Shore Café. The gathering was part of a week-long...
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TAHOE, Calif. — History repeats itself Sunday, Jan. 15 at Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park as the Eagle Wings Dance Group, descendants of the Paiute, Shoshone and Washo tribes offer traditional, sacred songs and dances to the Creator-God...
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Content is selected from e-mail submissions to Community Editor Amy Edgett at aedgett@sierrasun.com. Submissions are published in the print edition news space permitting. To enter an event online, visit www.sierrasun.com, locate the event calendar. Click...
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Olympic fans can keep the cross country skis in the garage for now and instead get out the hiking boots.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. — No doubt about it, winter 2012 is off to a monumentally slow start. Virtually no snow has fallen on the Tahoe Basin since the pittance we received at Thanksgiving, which is giving regional resorts fits as they try to...
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HOMEWOOD, Calif. — The West Shore Café & Inn invites all to the Nordic Olympic Trails Fundraiser, scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 11, 6-8 p.m.
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LAKE TAHOE — The winter months in Tahoe can sometimes stretch from late October through April, and the ever-changing weather in the Sierra can take many visitors by surprise. But the real problem is so many are totally unprepared for the...
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TAHOE, Calif. — During the winter of 1960 athletes from around the world came to Lake Tahoe to participate in the Winter Olympic Games. The biathlon and cross-country (XC) events of the V111 Winter Olympics were held in what is now Ed Z'Berg...
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