It’s chilly out, but an otherwise perfect morning for flying as Clayton Linnemann pushes his cherry-red-and-white SeaRey Elite seaplane from its hangar. Working under the purple sky of dawn, the Truckee-based private pilot circles the amphibious aircraft with a laminated checklist in hand, studiously examining...

Radiant yellow and orange flames leap from what is potentially the world’s most popular wood fire. Its rough-hewn logs are etched with signs of its ashen fate, and it has that familiar pleasant crackle. But this fire puts out no heat, has no smell and...

In August 2023, social media lit up with news that one of North Tahoe’s own, 76-year-old longtime local Bill Roberts, was lost in the rocky wilderness off the John Muir Trail. His Garmin GPS went dead near Forester Pass, the highest point on the trail...

For generations, the community ski hill was where millions of Americans learned their first turns on snow. But in the modern era of mega-corporations, mergers and acquisitions, these cherished locations have become increasingly rare, with thousands of ski resorts across the country dwindling to a...

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