Who’s running for Truckee Town Council; efforts to combat pollutants/microplastic in Lake Tahoe; a peregrine falcon success story.

While a big tourism year for Tahoe’s north shore has brought this My Shot author a sense of a lack of control over litter and other degrading impacts, but he encourages action, like his own newly established Monday beach clean-ups, to fight that feeling of powerlessness and make a difference.

You Asked. They Answered. Why can’t Tahoe solve the trash issue? What’s being done and what more could be done?

Episode 69 | September 9, 2020

Most people have heard how a pyrotechnic gender reveal ignited the El Dorado fire outside San Bernardino this past Saturday. Many are asking, “how do we get it through our thick human skulls that this is fire season?” The Tahoe National Forest recently started a local program to help drill this fact into our collective psyche.

Episode 68 | September 3, 2020

While scuttlebutt says crowds have swelled this pandemic summer, the data tracking how many people are here points to a slight decrease overall. The reason for the congestion may be that the type of visitor has shifted. Reporting by Alex Hoeft.

Illustrator Mike English’s cartoons comment on life and politics in Tahoe/Truckee.

Whether you’re an avid sledder or a first-time thrill-seeker on a plastic portal to that speedy snow slope adventure of your dreams, you need to know these tips to improve your “slediquette.”

Confronting Tahoe’s under-the-radar and out-of-control litter problem