How do you teach people to count butterflies? Well, community scientist Richard Rachman likes to start by taping Doritos to trees.  Rachman is a plant ecologist by trade, but is also a volunteer with ...

The Sweetwater Heli team is fueled by deep personal connections to skiing in California. Johnson lives in the Sweetwaters and Kirschenmann has been skiing in Mammoth for years. Although Kirschenmann ...

Pictures of the beautiful girl, whom her mother called “Tiny Dancer” projected on the outside of the apartment wall. Pictures in cheer uniform. Smiling pictures with family. One picture of her as a ...

The majority of the money, slightly less than $200,000, was awarded to the town as a Caltrans grant in July. The town was then required to provide a cash match of 11.47% (approximately $25,807) ...

A Mammoth Lakes couple, Anthony and Diana Robusto, alleged Wednesday morning that Charles Schwab & Co. breached its contractual obligations by refusing to reimburse them for a fraudulent $974 wire ...

Take the dark-eyed Junco, for example. It’s a ground-dwelling bird with a rounded head, a short, stout bill, and a long, flicking tail. It hops along the forest floor of Yosemite, and new research ...

But in the past few years, the school has established a relationship with Sacred Rok, a local nonprofit organization led by Katie Lambert and Ron Kauk, climbers who draw upon their own difficult ...

The most recent Eastern Sierra regional housing assessment doesn’t break much new ground, but it does confirm the need for more housing of all types in Mono and Inyo counties. It also updates the real ...

Coming out of that nebulous world, there is a definite attraction to hitting a nail with a hammer. The impact makes the hammer vibrate, the oak squeak, wrist and arm muscles clinch and release. It’s a ...

In years past, the history of the town, the stories of its people, and the effort to preserve its heritage were deeply personal to those who lived here. The challenge now is that as the community ...