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Tahoe City's east end faces an uncertain future as the former Safeway sits vacant and the Boatworks Mall remains in foreclosure, leaving two cornerstone commercial properties in limbo.

What happens when all our media outlets are owned by a few billionaires? With the Ellison family buying Warner Bros., this would concentrate unprecedented power over news and information in one company.

Every spring, local organizations give a total of $1 million to graduating seniors in scholarship money, a testament to our generous community and a gift that changes students’ lives.

With La Fuerza Latina, Truckee High teacher Craig Rowe is helping first-generation Latino students apply to college. His one-man mission is reshaping lives.

With the recent closure of South Lake Tahoe’s only movie theater, Moonshine Ink editor Melissa Siig worries we are losing our community gathering places at a time they are needed more than ever.

Tahoe/Truckee’s Congressional district is one of five Republican districts in California being targeted by Prop 50, which is part of the national redistricting battle brewing over the 2026 midterm elections.

Skipping the online cart and shopping closer to home.

Moonshine Ink received more than 10 awards in the 2025 Better Newspaper Contest.

At its May 14 emergency board meeting, the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District decided to remain in the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association for the 2025/26 year, delaying its move to the California side in order to further study the impacts.

An advisory committee has a 5-year plan to help the homeless. But it’s too late to save Hope Ridge, a Truckee project that was canceled after community opposition. A similar project fared better in Kings Beach.