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Join the Barton Foundation for the 21st annual Tiki Tee Off Golf Tournament and Luau. All proceeds support the Community Health Endowment to benefit the health and wellbeing of South Shore residents.

This year’s golf outing will take place on Friday, May 22, at the Lake Tahoe Golf Course in South Lake Tahoe. Check-in and buffet brunch will start at 12 p.m. The shot gun scramble will tee off at 1:30 p.m.

While every day is a great one in South Lake Tahoe, today is particularly a good one for Linda Emmons. That is because she came forward to claim her $708,769 Powerball prize. Emmons matched the numbers 24-44-31-11 and 40 on a $20 Quick Pick® ticket, missing only the Powerball number 27 for the March 11th drawing.

As South Tahoe Now carried the story on March 12, that lucky ticket was sold at the 7-Eleven located at 3923 Pioneer Trail in South Lake Tahoe.

An overflowing audience of South Lake Tahoe residents, home owners, vacation home owners, real estate agents, property managers, vacation rental companies, locals and city officials were on hand Tuesday night at the Vacation Home Rental (VHR) community workshop held in City Council chambers at the airport.

City Manager Nancy Kerry ran the meeting, giving everyone a chance to speak their opinion after a short presentation.

Living local takes on new meaning now that those living close to South Shore can reap big rewards thanks to a new Backstage Pass Rewards Program at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Resort that is exclusive to local area residents.

“The course of true love never did run smooth," wrote William Shakespeare in his most famous comedy, 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream.' Fans of the Bard are in for a treat as the talented South Tahoe High students present this famous play in the school's new, state of the art TADA Theatre March 13-15 and 20-22.

Midsummer's Night Dream will be presented with a Tahoe Twist and promises to keep you in stitches. Director Nannette Niven has a cast of 20 students including Bjorn Hedqvist, Stephanie Hernandez, Zoe Greco, Tyler Martin, Steve Huerta, Zane Brady, Hunter Turney and Jered Stowell.

Boulder, Colorado has one. Portland, Oregon has one. Even Roseville and Truckee, California have one. If plans go as they appeared to during a presentation at the City Council meeting on Tuesday, South Lake Tahoe will soon have one.

What is it?

"It" is a combination BMX track and mountain bike skills park which will be located at the city owned Bijou Park.

Bijou Bike Park Association (BBPA) and Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association (TAMBA) President Ben Fish laid out the proposed plan to the Council and community.

The world’s most infamous betrayer gets his day in court at Lake Tahoe Community College this March. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, a searingly funny, adult, and thought-provoking play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, will be presented in LTCC’s Duke Theatre March 13-22. Set in a time-bending, darkly comic world between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot reexamines the plight and fate of perhaps the New Testament’s most misunderstood and unexplained sinner.

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is accepting nominations for Lake Spirit Awards to honor real people making real progress protecting Lake Tahoe. Members of the public are encouraged to nominate exemplary members of the community who are going above and beyond the call of duty to protect the beauty and clarity of the Lake.

Defending Nevada State Division IV basketball champs Whittell High School are the top seed for the West in the Northern Region tournment which started Thursday at Spring Creek High School.

The Warriors beat Owyhee High School in the first round, 71-27. They will meet the McDermitt Bulldogs in the quarterfinals on Friday afternoon. McDermitt is the #2 seed for the East in post season regional action.

In the other quarterfinal game, Eureka will play Virginia City at 8 p.m.

A Little League team that captured the attention of the nation and the hearts of its hometown was stripped of its national title Wednesday after an investigation revealed that team officials had falsified boundaries so they could add ineligible players to the roster.

Only last summer, the all-black Jackie Robinson West team was the toast of Chicago and was honored with trips to San Francisco and to the White House.

The defending Division 4 State Champion Whittell Warriors are beginning the final weekend of regular season action with an impressive record. Overall, they are 21-2 and in league play they are 13-1. Their only loss of the season is to league leading Virginia City.

On Thursday night Whittell won their sixth straight game by beating Sage Creek 70-13.

Every Warrior ended up on the score board led by Palmer Chaplin's 11 points. Three teammates had 10 points: Colin Buchholz, Bryce Bronken and Quinn Kixmiller. All of those players are juniors except senior Bronken.

The University of Utah ice hockey team won the Pac 8 Hockey Conference Sunday in South Lake Tahoe with a 5 to 1 win over the Oregon Ducks.

Number 1 Utah was evening matched on the ice with Number 3 Oregon, but penalties ended up being the difference. The two had met in the 2013 finals which ended with Utah on top as well, so Oregon was looking for revenge.

Every year, thousands of children go missing. Understandably, the parents in these situations are frightened and may not be thinking as they would when not under distress.

Accurate information about missing children is necessary immediately after a child goes missing, but with panicked parents this may not be as easy as one would think.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has created an app for iPhones and android phones so parents can keep information about their children at their fingertips.

Coldwell Banker McKinney’s team of over 30 professionals has been providing services for clients since 1978 in South Lake Tahoe. Their award winning office in the heart of the community and they call themselves the most established and experienced real estate company in the City.

South Tahoe High's varsity boys basketball team has been racking up the wins over the last eight days, coming away with victories in the last four games.

Coach Joby Cefaul's Vikings beat Fernley on Saturday, January 10 by a score of 80-68. They started their winning streak on Saturday, January 3 when they beat Spring Creek 65-38, followed by Tuesday's win over Dayton (63-48) and Thursday's 68-58 win over Union Mine of Placerville.

South Tahoe High graduate Robbie Gallo (aka Rob Hurt), the founder, MC and front man for the popular hip hop band, Vokab Kompany, hits the main stage Monday to open up the three day outdoor concert in South Lake Tahoe.

Sunday night, he and the group were in Reno and will be spending New Year's Eve at Park West in Chicago, but for today, South Lake Tahoe gets their own back on stage at both SnowGlobe and the after concert at Blu Nightclub at MontBleu.

The stages were being set up Monday at the Community Play Fields in South Lake Tahoe. Large tents could be seen from Al Tahoe Blvd as work crews were busy getting things ready for SnowGlobe which will be in South Lake Tahoe December 28-31.

Residents in the neighborhoods surrounding the fields and Lake Tahoe Community College received a letter recently from the City of South Lake Tahoe, alerting them that the three day outdoor concert is once again coming to the South Shore.

Unless you're not connected to social media or watching television news in the region you have most likely heard of accusations of racism on the part of the South Lake Tahoe Police Department (SLTPD) in their handling of the Dejon Smith missing person and subsequent death case. This claim and other rumors circulating around the case were discussed today with SLTPD Lt. Brian Williams who spoke to South Tahoe Now about the case

South Lake Tahoe Police found the body of a missing 14 year old South Tahoe High freshman on Saturday afternoon.

Dejon Smith had been missing since Thursday afternoon when he never returned home after heading out to play after school. Police responded to the 1100 block of Wildwood Avenue to follow up on a report of a missing juvenile. They followed leads with no results at that time.

For the past year, Terri Arnold of South Lake Tahoe has been creating promotional videos for the Carson Valley Story Teller series. Each of the nine completed videos (three are still in post production), show Arnold as she shows viewers all they can do in the area. She doesn't show you in the normal way either, everything is done while on a horse named Meha. They can all be seen on the Carson Valley Visitor Authority's You Tube page.

As the keynote speaker at last month’s National Workshop on Large Landscape Conservation in Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell emphasized the central role collaboration must play for America to protect its natural resources, balance economic needs, and address emerging environmental challenges such as climate change.

“We are moving into an era of epic collaboration,” Jewell said, explaining that regional partnerships across jurisdictional boundaries are more important than ever for the federal department that manages 20 percent of our nation’s land.

I had always planned to drive off the hill to watch a Reno Bighorns game, but I never found the opportunity. That is, until this weekend. It's hard to believe they've been in Reno since 2008!

My son Chris won tickets by answering a Bighorn trivia game on a Reno radio station, so my daughter Abby and I drove down Friday night to join him and watch the season opener against the Iowa Energy.

The Parks, Trails and Recreation Master Plan has identified the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Complex for future renovation, but exactly how that renovation will look is up to the public.

The City's Parks and Recreation Commission is holding a public workshop to gather input from the community on what their desires for the complex are.

It’s the brassy, bright, and promising year of 1959. Boston’s Colonial Theatre is host to the opening night performance of a new musical. When the leading lady mysteriously dies on stage the entire cast & crew are suspects.