Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park in California has been closed indefinitely because of record snowfall that makes travel difficult and dangerous, both to and within the park, according to the park and the U.S. National Park Service.

A wildfire near the Yosemite National Park known as the Oak Fire neared 16,000 acres on Sunday and with 0% containment.

Firefighters are working hard to save the giant sequoias of Mariposa Grove inside the Yosemite National Park after a blaze broke out Friday from undetermined causes.

San Francisco’s Hetch Hetchy water system survived a near collapse of a dam, but another storm and spiking temperatures could create a bigger risk of collapse next week.

Snowmelt-driven flooding in Yosemite Valley and parts of Mariposa County is about to worsen as new thunderstorms packing 50-mile-per-hour winds slam the Sierra Mountains.

Yosemite National Park’s historic Ahwahnee Hotel, designed by famed architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood and erected in 1927, will lose its name on March 1 after a legal battle between the National Parks Service and the Delaware North company.

An unusual resurgence of the plague in the United States this year has left three dead and eight others sickened across six states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).