Mono County News

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.

May 25, 2012 -- The Orland Free Library is running out of room. Library usage is increasing to 3,500 to 4,000 patrons per month and it's book collection and computers are filling all available space.

Staring down a looming 25 percent budget cut is enough to rock any company CEO-or maybe instead, it's enough to demand change.

The former general manager of the Bridgeport Public Utilities District has been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement.

Representing 54 percent of the county's agriculture industry, local ranchers saw a jump in the price of beef this year due to a major drought in Texas that limited the Lone Star State's ability to produce cattle.

In early April, the District Attorney's Office was alerted to an allegation of misappropriation of funds from the Bridgeport Public Utility District.

If you want to vote by mail in the upcoming election, the deadline to submit your application is Tuesday, May 29, according to Lynda Roberts, the Mono County Registrar Voters.

This time, the meeting will be on Friday, June 8, at 4:30 p.m. at the Grand Sierra Lodge in the Village.

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.

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 .

The Mono County Board of Supervisors Tuesday appointed Assistant District Attorney Tim Kendall to fill the remainder of retiring District Attorney George Booth's term, which ends in 2014.

Sierra Business Council was founded in Truckee in 1994 to demonstrate throughout the Sierra Nevada that vibrant communities, fair and prosperous economies and healthy ecosystems are interdependent and complementary interests.

A deadly motorcycle crash on Highway 108Sonora Pass. It happened Tuesday morning in Mono County around 11 in the morning.

Every May 15, in honor of National Peace Officers Memorial Day, law enforcement agencies nationwide join hands to honor those brave men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice of giving their life in the line of duty.

Another major step has been achieved in the Digital 395 Broadband Project. On Monday, May 7, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration , the lead environmental agency for the project, issued a Finding of No Significant Impact under the National Environmental Policy Act, completing one of the key steps for the 583-mile long ... (more)

South of Mammoth to Paradise, east to the Tri-Valley and Benton, big sprawling District 2 is a distinctly nonhomogenous district that will require its county supervisor to be something of an acrobat to be eff ective.

Mono County's District 3 is made up of parts of Mammoth, June Lake, Lee Vining and the Mono Basin.

Author Rebecca Solnit's book, A Paradise Built in Hell, asks perhaps the most elementally human question of all-and comes up with a surprising answer Most of us have wondered how we would react in the event of a terrible disaster or tragedy.

On Friday afternoon, law enforcement authorities along the California-Nevada border carried out the late University of Michigan doctoral graduate from the Cocaine Chute area of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

On a recommendation from the county's Local Transportation Committee, Mammoth was going to have a lighted, changeable-message sign on S.R. 203 as motorists head out of town.