Parking Feud at The Bishop City Council

With homes and commercial property often close together in the City of Bishop, conflicts over parking on city streets boil up from time to time. On Monday night the Bishop City Council voted against a plan to put in two hour parking limits on Edward Street. Often...

Fire Guts Home in Sunny Slopes

A structure fire in the community of Sunny Slopes left one home gutted, but also left the occupants and their dog unhurt. At about 5:20 Friday evening, the Long Valley Fire Fighters were called out to 95 Pinyon Hill Road at Sunny Slopes for the report of a structure...

Hospital Board to Consider Property Purchase

For schools, hospitals, government and private business the lack of local housing makes recruitment of employees tough. In the case of Northern Inyo Hospital, officials may support looking into acquisition of a small housing project. The condo project on the corner of...

Tax Day Protest in Bishop

All across the nation, groups have decided to demonstrate today, tax day, their unhappiness with government spending. The organization TaxDayTeaParty is generally considered to be Republican and conservative. Locally, Lance and Barbara Hinek of Bishop organized a...

Well 416: “Environmental Risk” for Lone Pine

Well 416 sits west of Lone Pine. DWP installed it 7 years ago. In all that time, LA and Inyo have quibbled over how to test pump the well. The hydrology of Lone Pine makes it an environmental risk, but with statewide water supplies low DWP wants to get on with pumping...