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2 days ago | 
southtahoenow.com | Paula Peterson
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – To reduce wildfire risk, the USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is scheduled to begin mastication treatments on approximately 20 acres of National Forest System lands adjacent to South Tahoe High School. Work may begin this week and will continue for the next three weeks, conditions, staffing and weather permitting. When work is taking place, access to some areas may be disrupted temporarily.
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2 days ago | 
carsonnow.org | Paula Peterson
Lake Tahoe is big. It is about 22 miles long and 12 miles wide, and 191 square miles. On a surface that big at an elevation of 6,224 feet and full of snowmelt, situations on the water can change rapidly and be unpredictable. Saturday, June 21, 2025 was evidence that this is true, and it was a day that was even more unpredictable than normal. Eight people died after their boat capsized on the water.
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2 days ago | 
southtahoenow.com | Paula Peterson
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – The next meeting of the South Lake Tahoe Planning Commission will include the major design review and request for allocation of commercial floor area at a new business, the Tahoe Cider Company. The special meeting will decide is the business can transfer and use 1,033 square feet of Commercial Floor Area (CFA).
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3 days ago | 
southtahoenow.com | Paula Peterson
LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – After silver was discovered in Virginia City in 1859, it became a boomtown after a massive influx of miners and speculators arrived to make it rich. To supply water to the town and the mines, Marlette Lake was created by installing a dam on what was known as Goodwin Lake, and Hobart Reservoir was created. The water was diverted to Virginia City via an ingenious system of flumes and pipelines, including the world’s largest inverted siphon in 1873.
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3 days ago | 
southtahoenow.com | Paula Peterson
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office responds to calls throughout the county. The following are calls that only pertain to the South and West Shore, including Meyers, South Lake Tahoe, Meeks Bay, Tahoma, and the Echo Summit area. There may be some missing calls due to sheriff’s logs not being completed at the time of the story. Calls for June 16 – June 22, 20256/1605:56 GRAND THEFT REPORT – Occurred on Cascade Rd, in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Disposition: REPORT TAKEN.
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3 days ago | 
carsonnow.org | Paula Peterson
The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Division has positively identified the victims from the tragic boating incident on Lake Tahoe on June 21, 2025. The victims of this incident are:Paula Bozinovich, 71 years old, from Redwood City, Calif. Terry Pickles, 73 years old, from Redwood City, Calif. Joshua Antony Pickles, 37 years old, from San Francisco, Calif. Peter Bayes, 72 years old, from Lincoln, Calif. Timothy O’Leary, 71 years old, from Auburn, Calif.
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3 days ago | 
southtahoenow.com | Paula Peterson
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) provision to mandate the sale of millions of acres of public lands has reportedly been stripped from the Senate budget reconciliation package on procedural grounds by the Senate parliamentarian. Several protests have occurred at Lake Tahoe since the bill was introduced, including one on the beach this weekend. If passed, the sale of U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands in 11 western states, including large portions of Lake Tahoe.
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4 days ago | 
southtahoenow.com | Paula Peterson
EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. – While many of the details are not available at this time, a review of Saturday’s tragic overturning of a boat at D.L. Bliss State Park was provided on Monday by the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office (EDSO). EDSO PIO Sgt. Kyle Parker told a gathered group of media at Camp Richardson that the conditions on Lake Tahoe on June 21 were calm and sunny, and that quickly changed with a fast-moving storm that lasted about an hour.
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4 days ago | 
southtahoenow.com | Paula Peterson
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Lake Tahoe is big. It is about 22 miles long and 12 miles wide, and 191 square miles. On a surface that big at an elevation of 6,224 feet and full of snowmelt, situations on the water can change rapidly and be unpredictable. Saturday, June 21, 2025 was evidence that this is true, and it was a day that was even more unpredictable than normal.
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4 days ago | 
carsonnow.org | Paula Peterson
The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office (EDSO) is reporting a seventh boater has been recovered from Lake Tahoe after Saturday’s tragedy. On Sunday evening, June 22, 2025, search and rescue efforts located and recovered one of the boaters who was still missing. Unfortunately, the boater was deceased. On Saturday, a quick-moving storm produced northerly winds and waves of up to 8 to 10 feet, which caused the vessel and many others on the lake to capsize.
