Save 225 miles, Jerod Haase’s career in basketball has nearly come full circle. That’s the distance between Haase’s childhood home in South Lake Tahoe—where he shoveled snow off a blacktop to put up shots—and the palm-lined boulevards of Palo Alto, where Stanford University officials named...
California’s coastal region, linked by the San Andreas Fault and populated by big cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, tends to get all the attention for western earthquakes. A long-standing history—to include the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, the 1994 Northridge earthquake in the...
The sun-sodden shores of serene Lake Tahoe and the violence-ridden sands of rural Iraq are about as far away as worlds get on planet Earth. But those disparate worlds collide with explosive force in a new addition to America’s pantheon of war literature—Youngblood, written by...
It’s the Lake Tahoe lifestyle—and its promise of bluebird powder days on the mountain or a sunny afternoon on the water—that draws both locals and tourists to the area. This same lifestyle is what local brands try to capture in products like sweatshirts, hats, T-shirts...
Thanks to winter’s return after a four-year hiatus, Lake Tahoe’s wildflowers are poised to impress with a banner year After four years of drought, Tahoe is heading into summer on the heels of an average snowpack winter: The Lake is once again flowing from its outlet, and...
With proprietors who take their craft seriously, this Truckee spot serves up quality plates Earnest. That might best describe the Truckee Tavern & Grill and its proprietors, Chris St. Martin and Ryan Dierks, who launched the Old Town restaurant specializing in wood-fired cuisine and crafty cocktails...
A native of Princeton, New Jersey, Justin Kaplan launched Lookout Lodge at Martis Camp in Truckee, Nine41 Eatery & Bar in Incline Village and Cold Water Brewery & Grill in South Lake Tahoe, where, as executive chef, he designs and oversees a menu of California...
The benefits of practicing yoga outdoors Yoga, a practice developed in India thousands of years ago, is now arguably one of the most popular forms of fitness in the world. But as anyone who has practiced yoga for a prolonged period of time can attest, yoga...
Longtime president of Nevada’s premier environmental science institute steps down Looking at the list of recent projects at Desert Research Institute (DRI) makes it clear the institution’s reach extends far beyond its two main campuses in Reno and Las Vegas. There is an analysis of extreme aquatic...
To get a handle on environmental impacts, a local photographer took to the sky...