Tahoe Truckee Region Local News: History


All Local History News articles contributed by our local media allies and other local newsrooms.

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12/06/2023
The Fort Independence Indian Community is getting the Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife at no cost in 2024. Native Americans had lived on this land for centuries before the hatchery’s construction.

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11/28/2023
Political wonks in California, Florida and maybe a few states in between, will be glued to their screens Thursday night to watch Gov. Gavin Newsom and Gov. Ron Desantis square off in a highly-anticipated Blue vs. Red State debate that’s been brewing since the summer.

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11/22/2023
Hundreds of people are expected at Alcatraz on Thanksgiving morning to commemorate Native Americans occupying the island from 1969-71. The event is known as the Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Gathering.

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11/07/2023
A statue of Miwok elder William J. Franklin has been installed on California State Capitol grounds. The monument replaces a statue of Father Junípero Serra, which protestors toppled in 2020.

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11/03/2023
Tribes like the Muwekma Ohlone have been asking UC Berkeley for decades to give back ancestral remains from burial sites around the Bay Area. The school is in the process of repatriating 4,400 remains and 25,000 tribal items.

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11/02/2023
Ever wondered how Gold Rush towns like You Bet, Gouge Eye and Snow Tent got their names? Answers to many such questions can be found in “Ghost Towns of Nevada County,” available for the first time in paperback on Amazon.

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10/30/2023
Robert Irwin, an artist and MacArthur genius grant recipient, died in San Diego at 95 on Oct. 25. Michael Govan, who heads the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, offers a colorful retrospective on Irwin's work.

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10/27/2023
Camille Dixon, the announcer for Disney California Adventure, and her husband, Bill Rogers, the voice of Disneyland, are moving on from this work. They have been at the parks for more than 40 years combined.

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09/25/2023
Image for display with article titled Truckee’s notorious Red Light District: Mollie Forshay’s troubles, Part I

Like many small railroad towns in the 19th Century, Truckee’s businesses were strung along a main thoroughfare known as Front Street or Commercial Row. Behind these storefronts was an alleyway identified on the map as Second Street but what locals eventually called Jibboom Street. Jibboom Street was the heart of the hamlet’s Red Light District [...].

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09/25/2023
Image for display with article titled Travelogue on Hwy. 395 Released

Author Stephen H. Provost has released his new book “Sierra Highway: U.S. 395 and El Camino Sierra in California and Nevada (Highways of the West).” The guidebook is a historical travelogue, featuring more than 550 images and is the fourth installment in the Highways of the West series following Highway 395.

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09/04/2023
California wildfires every year emit as much carbon as almost 2 million cars, posing a threat to efforts to battle climate change.

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08/17/2023
In a new study published Aug. 17 in the journal Science, fossil records at La Brea Tar Pits indicate that the disappearance of California’s sabertooth cats, dire wolves and other large mammals nearly 13,000 years ago was linked to rising temperatures and fire activity spurred by people.

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07/18/2023
The tree, dubbed “Firetop,” is 265.87 feet tall, more than 16 feet around and just over 5 feet in diameter.

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07/05/2023
The first-in-the-nation measure to add caste to state anti-discrimination laws, which passed the state Senate, survives the Assembly judiciary committee. The bill’s author refused to water down the measure further.

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06/26/2023
An obscure 1910s-era labor board once regulated everything from canneries to film sets to sheep farms. Why is California trying to bring it back now?

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06/23/2023
Following the 2022 opening of the brand’s first luxury micro-resort in South Lake Tahoe, Desolation Hotel has announced its expansion to a second location, taking over the beloved Sorensen’s Resort.

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06/22/2023
Record-setting glider pilot Gordon Boettger and co-pilot Bruce Campbell landed 17 hours and 25 minutes after setting off, setting a record of 3,055 kilometers, the longest glider flight in history.

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06/20/2023
The new Episcopal Bishop of Nevada will visit St. John in the Wilderness Church on the grounds of Camp Galilee in Glenbrook this weekend to honor the Rev. Victoria Warren's 12 years of service to the congregation of the historic lakeside church.

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06/05/2023
Fayçal Ziraoui flew to California from France, believing that the serial killer may have left a rock formation near Hell Hole Reservoir, west of Lake Tahoe in Placer County.

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05/31/2023
With a conservative Supreme Court expected to rule this summer in favor of ending or restricting affirmative action in college admissions, California’s private universities are worried about the potential impact on campus diversity. College administrators are revamping admissions and doing more high school outreach, while student activists are campaigning against a potential ban.