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Watch How a California Zoo Nurses Orphaned Bear Cub Found Wandering in a Shop
The Oakland Zoo’s veterinary team is striving to save an “extremely ill” and orphaned black bear cub that was recently found wandering into a shop in South Lake Tahoe, the zoo said Tuesday.
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California Ski Season Starts Early
Several ski resorts in Northern California have opened early due to steady snowfall this past week.
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Search Continues For 16-Year-Old Girl Who Vanished From California Campground
A massive search continued Tuesday for Kiely Rodni, a 16-year-old Placer County girl who vanished from a campground near Truckee, California, early Saturday morning after a party, and authorities say she may have been kidnapped.
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No Signs of Sea Serpents or Mobsters — But Lake Tahoe Trash Divers Strike Gold
Scuba divers who spent a year cleaning up Lake Tahoe’s entire 72-mile shoreline have come away with what they hope will prove much more valuable than treasure: tons and tons of trash.
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It's a Bear Battalion: California's ‘Hank the Tank' Home Invader Actually 3 Bears
DNA evidence shed new light on just who may be responsible for more than 150 incident reports in the region straddling Northern California and Nevada.
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Huge Calif. Bear With a Lengthy Record Still Eluding Capture After 7 Months
A 500-pound black bear known as “Hank the Tank” has damaged more than 30 properties around Lake Tahoe.
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Two Years After Brain Surgery, This Olympic Hopeful Could Compete for Team Ireland
Cross-country skier Stephen O’Mara has always been passionate about endurance sports. But when he sustained a traumatic brain injury during a 2019 triathlon, doctors feared the elite athlete may have to relearn everything— even walking.
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Nonprofit Removes 18,215 Pounds of Trash From Lake Tahoe
Nonprofit Clean Up the Lake, currently in the process of removing trash from Lake Tahoe’s entire 72-mile-long shoreline, has pulled out 18,215 pounds of garbage with 28 miles to go.
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Lake Tahoe Is Known for Its Clear Water. Scientists Are Studying If Wildfires Will Change That
With a wildfire no longer threatening Lake Tahoe, residents, tourists and scientists drawn to its clean alpine air, clear blue waters and fragrant pine trees now wonder about the long-term effects that remain.
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California Ski Resort Changes Name to Remove Offensive Word
Squaw Valley Ski Resort has a new name: Palisades Tahoe.
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Lake Tahoe Residents Relieved Homes Spared From Wildfire, But Many Have Yet to Return
People who fled South Lake Tahoe under threat of a wildfire have been trickling back home, but many shops remained dark Monday and the resort town’s normally bustling streets remained quiet.
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Some Tahoe Community Residents Return Home After Evacuating for Fire
Residents of Pollock Pines and surrounding areas have been able to return home and resume some of their regular activities.
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Lake Tahoe Evacuees Hope to Return Home as Wildfire Slows
Bulldozers with giant blades, crews armed with shovels and a fleet of aircraft dropping hundreds of thousands of gallons of water and fire retardant helped keep the advance of a California blaze threatening South Lake Tahoe to a couple of thousand acres _ a fraction of its explosive spread last month and the smallest increase in two weeks
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First Flames, Then Fees: Tahoe Evacuees Report Price Gouging
Some Lake Tahoe residents who fled a raging wildfire burning toward the California-Nevada border have encountered an unexpected obstacle: price gouging
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Lake Tahoe Wildfire Seemed Controllable, Until Winds Flared
Last week, managers overseeing the fight against the massive wildfire scorching California’s Lake Tahoe region thought they could have it contained by the start of this week
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Weather Slows California Wildfire, But Flames Keep Moving
Officials say they lucked out with favorable weather conditions that kept a huge forest fire out of the city of South Lake Tahoe, California
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Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts Use Snow-Making Machines to Help Fight Wildfire
As a ferocious wildfire barreled toward Lake Tahoe, a vacation haven on the the California-Nevada state line, area ski resorts have joined the firefight, using snow-making machines to protect the cherished destinations of generations of Californians and others.
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Caldor Fire Approaches Lake Tahoe After Mass Evacuation of Calif. Resort City
Firefighters are bracing for strong winds a day after an explosive wildfire emptied a resort city at the southern tip of Lake Tahoe
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California Ski Resort Defends Itself From Caldor Fire Using Snow Guns
Sierra-at-Tahoe, a ski resort south of Lake Tahoe, got creative defending itself from the rapidly spreading Caldor Fire by repurposing its snow guns to spray water on the property.
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All of South Lake Tahoe Ordered to Leave as Wildfire Grows
Thousands of people rushed to get out of South Lake Tahoe as the entire tourist resort city came under evacuation orders and wildfire raced toward the large freshwater lake of Lake Tahoe, which straddles California and Nevada.