At one point, Rick Bellis, Mammoth Lakes Code Compliance Officer, suggested CDFW’s presence in Mammoth was political. He added that he’d been advised in his own career to avoid Mammoth because of town ...

This weekend marks the 17th annual Mammoth Rocks festival. It began in 2009, during the recession, when the economy in Mammoth was particularly slow. The local Chamber of Commerce brainstormed ideas ...

The fence, she argued, blocks local residents out and infringes on their property. Rafeh said the fence’s primary purpose is to block out noise from the development to the neighboring community.

So he called his buddy Lieber, who had ventured into film around the turn of the century when the proliferation of digital cameras were democratizing the entertainment industry. He has since built a ...