LAKE TAHOE - Federal legislators urged the Sierra Club not to delay the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's Regional Plan Update prior to the environmental group's challenge to the wide-ranging plan this week.The exisCopyright 2013 Sierra Sun. All Continue Reading
LAKE TAHOE - Almost every year since 1987, Chief of the California Cooperative Snow Survey Frank Gehrke has recorded a mid-winter lull during which fewer storms hit the Sierra Nevada. And 2013 was no exception.The water contenCopyright 2013 Sierra Continue Reading
TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - The Sierra Sun's Holiday Pet Photo Contest was populated on Facebook with a plethora of amusing images, from dogs on snowmobiles, dogs at the table, dogs in stockings and yes, cats in sweaters, a yamaka sCopyright 2013 Sierra Continue Reading
TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - Sierra College Insights presents "Emotional Intelligence: The other kind of Smart" with Christopher Old at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8. Emotional Intelligence (EI), the ability to recognize Copyright 2013 Sierra Sun. All Continue Reading
TAHOE/TRUCKEE - Frank Gehrke skied into the middle of a clearing in Phillips station Wednesday to take measurements for the California Department of Water Resources' first snow survey of the year.And unlike last January,Copyright 2013 Sierra Sun. All Continue Reading
TRUCKEE, Calif. - The Canyon Springs project that proposes to develop a portion of the eastern Truckee landscape has the potential to generate significant environmental impacts in a number of areas, consultants and planners haveCopyright 2012 Sierra Continue Reading
TAHOE/TRUCKEE - There's fresh powder in the backcountry, but that doesn't mean you should leave your rock boards - or your avalanche beacon - at home.Recreational conditions on Thursday were good, SierrCopyright 2012 Sierra Sun. All rights reserved. Continue Reading
TAHOE/TRUCKEE - Skiers, boarders and winter-dependent business owners might find themselves praying to the snow gods more frequently if the findings from recent studies prove accurate. The $ 12.2 billion snow sports industry haCopyright 2012 Sierra Continue Reading
For the second year in a row, Lake Tahoe will not be along the route of the 2013 Amgen Tour of California, an annual week-long Tour de France-style cycling road race across the Golden State.Twelve cities in the Bay Area and in SouthCopyright 2012 Continue Reading
TAHOE, Calif. - The 2012/2013 Tahoe Backcountry Vertical Challenge, sponsored by Alpenglow Sports and Dynafit, continues its third year as Lake Tahoe's community-wide fundraising initiative to benefit the Sierra Avalanche Copyright 2012 Sierra Sun. Continue Reading
