The Sierra Star was recognized with eight awards, including the General Excellence award in its division, at the annual Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the California Newspaper Publisher's Association.

"It's the bulls and blood, it's the dust and mud, and it's the roar of the Sunday crowd," sings Garth Brooks about a rodeo, and last weekend all that and more, minus the mud, made for an exciting 60th Annual Coarsegold Rodeo.

Ask anyone in the North Sequoia League what school has the best swimming program and you'll receive the same answer every time -- Yosemite.

With Mother's Day Sunday, many children from five to 50 are thinking of ways to thank their mothers. But it was a straight from-the-heart response from 11-year-old Justus Shaw that brought tears to his mother's eyes last week as she sat in her l

It started with a simple flier announcing a Jan. 6 special Bass Lake Unified School District board meeting to present the district's anti-bullying and harassment policy.