Big Pine News

The LADWP is taking the first steps towards a greener future by considering construction of a new hydro-electric plant on Tinnemaha Reservoir.

What is unusual, according to law enforcement and one prominent expert in the field, is the number of bears coming down to the arid valley, and this early in the year.

Hoop dancer Sage Romero, a Paiute from Big Pine California, performs along with the rap act Red Power Squad during the games opening ceremonies.

Eastern Sierra anglers can expect to see at least 323,000 more fish stocked in local waters this year thanks to Senator Dave Cogdill's efforts with Assembly Bill 7, also known as the Inland Fisheries ...

Many of the approximately 100 residents who attended Tuesday's meeting were still muddy from clean-up efforts at their homes earlier in the day, but expressed nothing but gratitude towards the agencies that ...

A torrential summer downpour, coupled with barren earth left by last year's Inyo Complex Fire, forced dozens of Independence residents from their homes over the weekend and prompted local authorities to declare ...

Confronted by not one but two allegedly combative subjects including the man who called to report his car stolen by someone he said assaulted him earlier in the evening officers found themselves discharging ...

The hopefuls concluded their series of forums at the Bishop Senior Center on Tuesday, where a nearly packed house listened as they answered questions from both the League of Women Voters and spectators from the ...

“This is a service to all of our interested community members to provide access to these fine candidates ahead of making the important decisions facing all of us when we enter the voting booth come June.”

As with the candidate forums held Monday evening in Independence, that one scheduled by the Independence Civic Club, and at the League's Tuesday event in Lone Pine, each candidate offered opening remarks, ... via The Inyo Register

“Lots of different agencies have stepped up and are participating to help ensure this memorial comes to pass”

Honoring those citizens' commitment has a group of Big Pine residents working to recognize military service in a special way. via The Inyo Register

“This is a tribute to each student and their family to be given this tremendous opportunity to learn about our system of government and to enhance your future opportunity to contribute to your community.”

The American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary have long sponsored sending a select group of young men and women from across the state to spend a week "running the government of the Golden State." Big ... via The Inyo Register

How do you feel about the threat of another major earthquake over the next 30 years? 1. Prepare for quakes? Have tsunami alerts. via Los Angeles Times

“This vegetation is dry and a lot of it is dead”

The devastating Bluff Fire began when a camp stove blew over during high winds last Sunday. via The Inyo Register

“I believe that one of the most critical projects is finding funds to either demolish the old Big Pine Care Center ($550,000 estimate) or restore and find a use for it ($1 million plus estimate)”

"I have decided to retire in 2009; therefore I will not file for or run for another term as Fourth District supervisor," Bilyeu said. via The Inyo Register

“The governor's budget is very brutal to a small school like us”

Local students, faculty members and parents are pleading to their state representatives for more cash for education as schools across the state are facing a dwindling budget for next year. via The Inyo Register

“We have a dilapidated, old, crumbly facility there”

But this time around, the majority of the board felt the problem warrented the use of Prop 40 funds, which could have been spent instead in Southeast Inyo. via The Inyo Register

“We had gone through 5,122 ballots cast, out of a pool of registered Inyo voters that totals 9,946. So, we were seeing - S - S - Snearly a 52 percent participation rate at that point.”

As of Wednesday morning, there were still about 1,000 ballots that remained to be counted from Inyo's "Super Tuesday" contribution. via The Inyo Register

“We can't say if it was deliberate or not”

Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze offered the reward Wednesday following a state arson investigator's determination that the early-morning fire was human-caused. It is still unknown at this time whether the fire ... via The Inyo Register

“As a result, the water utility is considered an encroachment within the state right-of-way and the county is obligated to relocate any facilities that interfere with the proposed construction”

It was in 2006, while preparing for construction of the Independence-Manzanar Four-Lane Project , that Caltrans located portions of the Independence water system that were within the state right-of-way. ... via The Inyo Register

“The Inyo County Emergency Medical Care Committee (EMCC) values the standardization of Emergency Medical Technicians through the National Registry as a means to ensure all EMTs are trained to the same level”

Three local fire officials along with a representative from Inyo County Health and Human Services are lobbying the California Emer-gency Medical Services Authority for a new first-responder testing site in the ... via The Inyo Register