When most people think of Antarctica, they think of a pristine, untouched landscape of snow and ice. But those who have passed through King George Island know a starkly different reality exists—a landscape littered with rusting vehicles, deteriorating fuel tanks and heaps of scrap metal. ...
In the winter of 2001–02, Anthony Cupaiuolo spent days in Tahoe’s snowy backcountry with a video camera locked in his frozen fingers. He was gathering grainy footage for his first snowboarding film, Sick Day, which featured highlights of his friends’ riding talents. The movie, released...
“I have never been here before,” the keynote speaker says to an eager audience braving the relentless sun of a seasonably hot afternoon in South Lake Tahoe. “It’s not like I didn’t want to come. Nobody invited me.” The audience laughs in unison. The...
David Kelly was supposed to die at age 6. “My mother took me to the hospital in 1949. I got the last rights and the whole bit, and they put me on the iron lung, and three years later I was out of the iron...
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...
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...
Cal Neva owners default on loan, cast future of redevelopment project in doubt
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To revitalize Stateline, some support re-routing Highway 50 away from the casino corridor...
Tahoe's real estate market keeps inching upward...
Online rentals disrupt Tahoe's lodging economy...