JD Richey, a South Lake Tahoe fishing guide, holds a brown trout he caught on a recent morning on a solo fishing trip on the lake. Richey says his daily fishing trips are what’s keeping him from being ...

Spring has sprung and summer officially starts Saturday. Only one bad thing about summer, is that now the days will start getting shorter each day by one minute. But we still have plenty of time to ...

Clean Up the Lake, is a Tahoe non-profit known for its environmental dive teams and scuba cleanups. The group is back in ...

The Lahontan National Fish Hatchery Complex in Gardnerville began stocking 100,000 catchable, Lahontan cutthroat trout into Lake Tahoe on June 1 and will continue stocking throughout the summer as ...

There’s something to be said about strapping everything you need to your back, trekking through the mountains to a secluded lake, and fishing for your next meal. It’s a way of connecting to nature on ...

Editor’s note: Norwegian student Alexander Barg is visiting Grass Valley this summer for an internship with The Union. He is staying with the editor’s and publisher’s families. Here is his account of ...

A new study into plastic litter in Lake Tahoe reveals trouble lurking beneath the clear blue water of the Sierra Nevada's largest freshwater lake. A study of five sections of Lake Tahoe found hundreds ...

Microplastics, small fragments of fibers from clothing, packaging, and other plastic residue have invaded freshwater lakes and watersheds globally and in alarming quantities, according to new research ...