This article was published in the June 28, 2025 edition. “Damn, I think I left my phone back at the house. That’s the second time this week. The other time I left it in the car and spent 10 minutes ...

“A state border does not necessarily mean the ecosystem is any different,” Allison Weber, Friends of the Inyo Forest and Water Policy Director, told me just before she climbed shotgun into a ...

A rousing “No Kings” rally on Saturday confirmed that Bishop has become a bastion of solid blue and is dragging the rest of Inyo County into the purple political spectrum. Organizers from Inyo 350 ...

A wild foal was found dead in northern Mono County on Friday, June 6, with what appeared to be a bullet wound, according to locals. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) confirmed the incident is under ...

This article was published in the June 7, 2025 edition. Nearly a year after launching its “Lease to Locals” pilot program, the Mammoth Town Council faces a critical decision: extend a flailing effort ...

Countless books have celebrated Yosemite National Park’s scenery, geology, and trails. But until now, just one has solely chronicled the Park’s wildlife. In 1924, pioneering field biologist Joseph ...

At a public meeting held at the June Lake Community Center on Tuesday, Southern California Edison (SCE) faced criticism over its proposed relicensing of the Rush Creek Hydroelectric Project. Company ...

At this weekend’s 10th annual Mammoth Film Festival, they’re saving the best for last. The closing film, a documentary titled “Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore” screens at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. It is the ...

This story was originally published in the May 17, 2025 Issue. It’s usually tough to quietly make plans to build a huge, $43.5 million industrial park on the edge of Bishop featuring roughly 100,000 ...

Another year of nearly “normal” snowpack and runoff has drained some of the drama out of the 2025-26 Draft Owens Valley Operations Plan from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The ...

How often do you draw a crowd of 300 people in the Eastern Sierra? On a Thursday? At 4:30 p.m? But that’s the crowd Rachel Kulchin drew for her farm tour and mixer on April 10. Kulchin bought the ...

In 2008, professional rock climber and snowboarder Lonnie Kauk testified against another climber, Charles Barrett, who was later sentenced to life in prison by a federal court for felony sexual ...