The Web site for the Tahoe Daily Tribune in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., is running a bit slow this morning. It's understandable, since people who live in the area or have vacation homes there are closely following a major forest and brush fire. So far, it has charred more than 2,500 acres, destroyed more than 200 homes and other buildings, and it may have serious economic implications for the resort community.

The Tahoe Daily Tribune is a smaller-market newspaper (circulation is around 20,000, though the circulation is not audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations) on the south side of Lake Tahoe. The lake straddles the line between California and Nevada at the point where Nevada's border turns southeast. I've never been there, but people who have say it's one of the most beautiful places in the United States.

Swift Communications owns the Tahoe Daily Tribune as well as several other daily and weekly newspapers in California, Nevada and Colorado.

The Tahoe Daily Tribune's Web site has a ton of stories on every angle from breaking news and community meetings to assistance for evacuated and injured animals and how the fire will change July 4 festivities in the area. There's a podcast focusing on the evacuees temporarily housed at the South Lake Tahoe Rec Center, too. Reporters are updating the site very frequently, and reporters are making major efforts to keep the community updated. In the coming days, their efforts will be worth tracking.

On a completely unrelated note, today is the Web radio "Day of Silence" in protest of the changed royalty fees structure approved by the Copyright Royalties Board earlier this spring.