TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Porters Sports Owners, investors, and staff are deeply sorry to notify the Tahoe City community and North Lake Tahoe region Porters Sports closed its 501 North Lake Blvd. store on Monday, April 16, 2012.

Ponderosa Golf Course in Truckee will celebrate its 50th anniversary by offering $4 rounds on Saturday, May 19. The course is rolling back the green fees to the 1962 opening prices. Call 587-3501 for tee times.

TAHOE, Calif. - Showcase your business to hundreds of residents and meet new customers at the 2012 North Lake Tahoe Business Expo, an annual event produced by the North Lake Tahoe Chamber/CVB/Resort Association.
The North Lake

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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Aircraft enthusiasts and festival followers alike will be tantalized by the roar of T-38s flying overhead and SambaDa, a Santa Cruz group informed by bloco afro (Afro-Brazilian percussion music), samba-re

KINGS BEACH, Calif. - Property owners within the Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project boundaries are being asked to ensure that $166,000 of expected annual maintenance costs associated with streetscape improvements ar

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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - The final numbers are in from the Rx Take Back Day events held on Saturday, April 28, 2012 and the tallies show Tahoe-Truckee residents deeply care about the safe disposal of unused prescription and over-

TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Please join the Zano's for the Relay For Life of Truckee-Tahoe Purple Party, Wednesday, May 23 starting at 5:30 p.m. Admission is $15 and includes dinner and one raffle ticket. All proceeds benefit

The North Tahoe track and field team qualified 10 athletes for state at the Northern 2A Regional Championships in Fallon this past Friday and Saturday.
A couple of sophomores led the way individually, as Noah McDermott recorded a win

The young Truckee track and field team sent 25 athletes to the Northern 3A Regional Championships in Fallon this past weekend, where 12 of them advanced to state with top-five finishes.
With such a small team numbers-wise - the

TRUCKEE, Calif. - Sierra High senior Jenny Estrada recently won a statewide essay contest presented by the California Continuation Education Association (CCEA). "How I Turned Failure Into Success at Sierra High School̶

TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - In his classic book "A Sand County Almanac," Aldo Leopold set forth his most enduring idea, the "land ethic," which he articulated as a shift from seeing humans as "conqueror

TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Hit the Road music in partnership with The Grid Bar & Grill is producing a fundraiser for Chi Cheng, bassist of Deftones. In November 2008 Chenng was in an automobile accident which resulted in a serious

TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Truckee High School math teacher Diane Laroche has been selected a Truckee Hometown Sears-Sierra Sun Teacher of the Year finalist. Laroche was recognized for her creativity and ability to inspire students

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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - By now many of you may have attended Truckee High School's Drama Club production of Godspell. If so, then you have most likely spent time talking your agnostic, non-denominational, Jew

Editor's Note: This is the second in a five part series from the Campaign for Community Wellness for May as Mental Health Awareness Month.

TAHOE/TRUCKEE - If you know someone who has committed suicide or you've co

Dear Carla,
Our dog Rosie is very friendly and she loves everyone she meets. When visitors come to our house she goes completely nuts. She goes into a barking frenzy at the sound of the doorbell or a knock at the door because she is

TRUCKEE, Calif. - I'm sure most readers are familiar with Facebook, its popularity and rapid growth has been astounding. Facebook is scheduled to do an IPO later this week, which has lead to many people asking, what is an

I find it worrisome that the tobacco companies are putting so much money into Prop 29. Could it be true that they fear losing business? Could the increase in cigarette taxes actually curb cigarette smoking? Apparently they think it wi