Inaugural Truckee Running Festival slated for Saturday, July 2

Big Blue Adventure’s inaugural Truckee Running Festival on Saturday, July 2 has something for everyone – from children to elite racers, and 10K runners to half-marathoners.
The Fourth of July weekend event at River View S

North Lake Tahoe Historical Society presents: Frankie and Sammy, Sinatra, the mob and Cal-Neva: Rumors, Facts and Fictions

TAHOE CITY, Calif. – Rumors of Frank Sinatra’s underworld connections and powerful friends abound. Perhaps no other phase of his life is as infused with innuendoes as his time as part-owner of the Cal Neva Lodge in Crystal Bay,

Survivors remember horrific Nevada Amtrak crash

RENO, Nev. – Robert Hill’s mind keeps returning to one image from the smoke-filled Amtrak passenger car: the elderly woman he tried, again and again, to coax down from the upper deck after he escaped the burning train.
“I was t

Donner Summit to celebrate the end of winter with Independence Day festivities

SODA SPRINGS, Calif. – Heavy spring snow, propane explosions and evacuations have made the 2010/2011 winter a long one for people in Donner Summit communities. The end of the winter calls for celebration, and Donner Summit will

Investigators piece together Nevada Amtrak crash

RENO, Nev. -Workers wearing hazmat suits dug through burnt-out rail cars and twisted metal Monday at the scene of a horrific collision between a tractor-trailer and an Amtrak train as new details surfaced about the spotty drivin

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