Lone Pine News

Los Angeles city officials are drafting a master plan for a proposed solar farm and possibly a state park on Owens Lake, drained nearly a century ago when its water was diverted to the Los Angeles Aqueduct, officials said Thursday.

A group dedicated to economic stimulus is making sure that shopping locally comes with advantages like never before.

Because Inyo County has more days of sunshine than almost any other place in the world, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is focusing on its local property, hoping to kick off a solar energy program.

As world leaders haggled to forge an international climate agreement this week in Copenhagen, the Los Angeles City Council was wrestling with the consequences of plopping a mammoth city solar farm near Lone Pine.

After more than a solid hour of letters and words, a Bishop eighth-grader correctly spelled "spelunker" to win the 34th Annual Inyo County Spelling Bee.

The Pop Five is a series of reader-created top five lists. Today's contribution comes from Bob H. in Lone Pine, Calif: I've always been pretty upfront about the joys of loving pop culture and all of the snickers and eye rolls that go with that.A Here, in no particular order, are five things that are making me a happier dude these days: 1. The ...

Allen Pietrasanta gave a presentation at the latest Bringing Businesses to Bishop meeting on Thursday.

In anticipation of the fall leaf season activities, the city's Yardwaste Recycling Center and Lone Pine Recycling Center will be open from 1-5 p.m. Sundays -- from Sunday through Dec.

In anticipation of the fall leaf season activities, the City's Yardwaste Recycling Center , and Lone Pine Recycling Center will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday afternoons from Nov.

Anyone who has been in a car accident or suffered through a house fire knows that it's Inyo County's first responders who sacrifice their time, sweat and blood to protect us all from harm.

An earthquake has struck a remote area of eastern California that has been shaken by a sequence of tremors in the past week.The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.4 struck at 9:25 p.m. Thursday, six miles south of Keeler and 17 miles southeast of Lone Pine in the arid Owens Valley below the eastern slope of the ...

Fans of Westerns made before the advent of color television know how to distinguish, upon first glance, the good guys from the bad the heroes of their serials and matinee features from the villians they've been charged to dispatch.

A 4.5 earthquake rattled a ghost town near the Los Angeles Aqueduct and Owens Lake Saturday, the latest in a series of quakes in the Eastern Sierra.

Nature's artistry is evident in Southern Inyo's wind-swept, weathered boulders of the Alabama Hills against the backdrop of the majestic granite mountains of the Sierra Nevada to the west, and to the east the very different Inyo Mountains.

More earthquakes have struck a remote area of eastern California that has been shaken by a sequence of tremors since Thursday.

Eastern California awoke Saturday morning only to find that another spate of earthquakes have struck the Eastern Sierra, as a magnitude 4.5 quake rattled a famous ghost town some 200 miles north of Los Angeles.

President Barack Obama and his top Afghan war commander have met privately to discuss the U.S. strategy against insurgents.

A series of earthquakes with preliminary magnitudes reaching 5.2 have struck in a remote area of eastern California but there have been no reports of injury or damage.

Thursday, October 01, 2009 at 10:43 a.m. LONE PINE, Calif. a ' A series of earthquakes a ' the largest a magnitude-5.1 a ' have rattled the Lone Pine area of the eastern Sierra in Central California.

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit Inyo County early Thursday morning. The quake struck just after 3 a.m. eight miles south of Keeler, near Lone Pine on the way to Mammoth.