Rock Climber Sentenced to Life in Prison for Raping Woman in Yosemite National Park
A professional rock climber was handed a life sentence on Tuesday for repeatedly raping a 19-year-old woman at Yosemite National Park.
A professional rock climber was handed a life sentence on Tuesday for repeatedly raping a 19-year-old woman at 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.
An eight-year-old boy has become the youngest person to summit El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, according to his father who made the journey with him.
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.
The Detwiler fire near Yosemite National Park has destroyed about 60 homes and caused the evacuation of the historic gold mining towns of Mariposa and Coulterville.
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).
Two California ski resorts were forced to close their lifts this week due to lack of snow.