Mammoth Lakes News

Rebekah Bone, the animal shelter attendant at Whitmore Shelter on the Benton Crossing Road, spends time with one of her charges at the shelter.

A court in Texas is allowing detectives to review tapes of talks between Charles 'Tex' Watson, one of those convicted of the Manson murders, and his attorney.

Two California men were charged at 8:42 p.m. Tuesday in the 800 block of East Main Street on charges of railroad trespass.

Local Mammoth resident and day care provider Monique Foster was an adult woman before she realized that she had been sexually abused as a child.

Joe Walker is scheduled to appear in court in Santa Barbara today, where he is expected to be sentenced to state prison for a maximum of five years.

A violent encounter with a domestic violence suspect forced Mammoth Lakes police to Taser the suspect, 43-year-old Stephen Mellor, and left the victim of Mellor's attack bruised and bleeding.

According to an editorial on Thursday, May 24 at www.sacbee.com , Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski is attempting to clean up Assembly Bill 506 with AB 1692 less than one year after AB 506 was approved.

For three years now, public employee unions have been trying to make it impossible for local governments to seek bankruptcy protection.

Vallejo's plunge into bankruptcy was a disaster, closing firehouses, trimming the police force and earning the city a civic black eye.

After years of wrangling in the Legislature, a compromise bill authored by Fremont Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski and approved late last session established a mediation process cities would have to go through before filing for bankruptcy protection.

It's time to renew Town of Mammoth Lakes dog licenses for the upcoming fiscal year.

Yes, it's true: Stacy Corless will leave the Friends of the Inyo in July to be executive director of the Mammoth Mountain Community Foundation .

Candidates for contested seats on the Mono County Board of Supervisors Monday evening included, from left, Duane "Hap" Hazard, Fred Stump, Bob Peters, Tim Fesko, Jan Huggans, Tim Alpers and Vicki Bauer.

A resident of Mammoth Lakes is in critical but stable condition today, after being flown to Reno last Monday, with word that tests performed at the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory are positive on Thursday.

Local Muslims will host members of the larger San Luis Obispo community during an open house Saturday at the Mosque of Nasreen, 1136 Walnut St.

Making bad law even worse is not a responsible response to financial turmoil in local government.

When Vallejo declared bankruptcy in 2008, one collateral consequence was a years-long political duel in the Capitol between lobbyists for local governments and those for unions representing their workers.

Hot Creek, near Mammoth Lakes, was one of 20 streams in the Western U.S. examined in a study by Oregon State researchers who found no clear relationship between increasing air temperatures and stream temperatures.

The Mono County District 4 supervisor race has mostly been ignored by Mammoth in the past.

Deep Springs College, the tiny but prestigious school and ranch north of Death Valley, plans to admit female students for the first time in its 95-year history.