Tonight December 21 “Operation Santa” Is Heading To A Bishop Neighborhood Near You! 

  Tuesday, December 21st, starting at 5:30 pm, Santa Claus will visit the Bishop area during “Operation Santa.” But he won’t be in his sleigh or with his reindeer. Instead, the Bishop police officers, Inyo County Sheriff’s deputies, and Bishop firefighters...

50 Year-Old Hiker Found Deceased While Attempting A Winter Ascent of Mt. Whitney

     On December 13, 50-year-old Eric Goepfert left the Whitney Portal trailhead intending a winter ascent of Mt. Whitney via the Mountaineer’s Gully and North Fork of Lone Pine Creek trail.  His itinerary was for five days and four nights in the...

Bishop Lions Club Serves Pancake Breakfast On “The Shop With A Cop” Day

  Shown taking a well-deserved break  “mule hitching” a ride after serving a Bishop Lions Club pancake breakfast to approximately 85 excited area youngsters and law enforcement hosts and hostesses this past weekend for Shop-With-A-Cop. Pictured are...

Shop With A Cop, COVID-style, Planned for December 11

  Shop with a Cop was a fun, if chaotic, event, really kicking off the Christmas season. COVID, and the loss of K-Mart, changed that drastically last year and this year the Eastern Sierra Peace Officers Association has made modifications that bring it a little...

George Barlow Arrested for Attempted Homicide and Arson

On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, at about 12:40 P.M., Bishop Volunteer Fire Department, Inyo County Sheriff’s Office, Bishop Police Department, California Highway Patrol and CAL-Fire responded to a structure fire on North Barlow Lane. A fire on the front porch of the...