An old idea to create a tram system around Truckee/North Tahoe gains new attention from a community frustrated with vehicular ski traffic. Utah is poised to install its own; we check on the status of the local proposal.

Investment adviser John C. Manocchio has suggestions for readers on how to weather the next recession. The tips are not necessarily all what you might expect.

Also: a Tahoe Basin-wide perspective to trail planning and building, an area plan public workshop, a new memorial scholarship fund, springtime delivery for salmon, and a whole lot more.

Chamber of Commerce launches lunch and learn series; fire protection district introduces life-saving technology; Sugar Bowl extends ski season.

CHP’s guide to weekend ski traffic; Cortez Masto sponsors act to keep ski fees local; Tahoe Fund receives donations from Vail; more.

Agency introduces plan for growing housing solutions; Placer is first county to receive prohousing designation; more.

Truckee’s 2040 General Plan is approaching its final adoption this spring. Town staff and council look forward to implementing it, but local organizations and individuals argue the plan still isn’t ready.

Ken and Terry Yagura, having spent four-plus decades in North Tahoe and dedicated countless hours to important volunteer community projects, including Arts for the Schools and the Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe, detail the changes in their lives that Japanese internment camps made during World War II.

Palisades Tahoe and the USFS are pursuing an innovative workforce housing option, arranging for employees to be able to live in their vans at Granite Flat Campground south of Truckee on California Highway 89. They still have improvements to make, according to this writer.

Truckee/Tahoe’s childcare crisis impacts local families and the workforce.