Lost Sierra News Today

A trip to Graeagle, a tiny town in the Lost Sierra an hour north of Truckee, offers holiday merriment, snow play, mountain vistas and a chance to score a Christmas tree for $10.

A trip to Graeagle, a tiny town in the Lost Sierra an hour north of Truckee, offers holiday merriment, snow play, mountain vistas and a chance to score a Christmas tree for $10.

Officers forced their way into the home of Patricia Miller, 71, and discovered her dead body inside and the house ransacked, with signs that a bear had broken in before they arrived.

Throughout the lower 48, recreational bush pilots are using their nimble planes and social media influence to spread the word about bold frontiers in flight: touching down on remote federal lands, flocking to little-used runways in designated wilderness, and drag racing one another for pure sport. Their capstone event each season, the High Sierra Fly-In, never fails to deliver hair-raising thrills.

In this bonus episode, Tony Pipa speaks with listeners from four towns across the country to hear their stories of community revitalization: Lovington, New Mexico; Brattleboro, Vermont; De Soto, Kansas; and Quincy, California.

California's 3rd Congressional District stretches 450 miles from Death Valley to Tahoe and past Sacramento suburbs. Residents ask what they have in common.

As travel booms, overcrowding at top tourist destinations persists. Get off the beaten path at these 10 top destinations in North America.

Lonely Planet’s newest guidebook offers 100 place suggestions around the globe where travellers can really escape the tourist masses.

A NEW Lonely Planet Guide called ‘Offbeat’, which recommends “exciting alternative travel experiences” where they state that tourists are “few and far between”…

The absence of a deal now raises the risk that the Colorado River crisis could spiral into a legal morass.