Tecopa News

A bicyclist was struck and killed by a pickup truck yesterday afternoon on Charleston Boulevard, near University Medical Center.

Inyo County voters Tuesday went along with the rest of California in rejecting five ballot measures designed to close the state's budget gap.

MARK SMITH / PVT Geologist Lauren Wright heads cross-country toward the Crystal Spring formation east of the China Ranch Date Farm.

The Tecopa Basin Artist Guild and Tecopa Hot Springs Resort will change the gallery show for the new show opening April 11.

Overall: Worth planning a day around Brazilian Black Beans with Kielbasa Eggplant Lasagna jclcontheroad Wednesday, April 01, 2009 "If you have ever been near or in Death Valley, CA, you know that it is an assault on the senses--dry, dusty, desolate--with services few and far between.

MARK SMITH / PVT The Amargosa River flows weakly by the time it passes Dumont Dunes and crosses California Highway 127 -- but here it flows aboveground.

This is the perfect time to enjoy the drum and dance retreat to be held once again at Tecopa Hot Springs.

On Feb. 27, a story in the Pahrump Valley Times stated that Benjamin Swanson was arrested nine days earlier, after two significant indoor marijuana cultivation operations were discovered in homes he was renting in Tecopa Heights and Stewart Valley, Calif.

On Saturday, another exhibit is opening at the Tecopa Basin Artist Group Gallery.

SHOSHONE The Amargosa is less a river than the suggestion of one. For much of its run from the Nevada high desert to the bottom of Death Valley, it is a dry ribbon under sun-bleached sky.

Nye County Sheriff's deputies assisted the Inyo Narcotics Enforcement Team in dismantling two locations where marijuana was being cultivated last week.

As a member of the Madera County Firefighters Association, Don Warnock has traveled to many distant locations to add to his fire engine collection.

The U.S. House of Representatives will have a chance to protect more than 2 million acres of wild places when it returns next week from its weeklong Presidents Day recess.

Travis Brown walks across the Amargosa River near the ranch owned by his parents, Brian and Bonnie Brown, outside of Tecopa, Calif., on Wednesday.

GINA B. GOOD / PVT Rich Regnell, director of operations and restoration at the Amargosa Opera House and Hotel, stands in front of the opera house stage.

State budget cuts continue to trickle down to the local level, with the impacts becoming more apparent in Inyo County as department heads begin reducing their budgets and cancelling projects.

The Inyo County Free Library is about to step into the "world of tomorrow" with the unveiling of its online catalog.