Stranded on an isolated ridge and facing an 800-foot drop, two California backpackers were rescued by helicopter in the nick ...

Members of the Mono County Sheriff Search and Rescue Team were airlifted to two backpackers trapped on an icy ridge north of ...

A storm is expected to bring low elevation rain and high elevation snow to the region Monday through Tuesday night, according ...

MONO COUNTY, California (KOLO) - A winter storm warning has been issued for Mono County. The National Weather Service in Reno ...

Federal officials plan to round up wild horses roaming the Eastern Sierra, citing hazards and damage. But local tribes and ...

A California Highway Patrol helicopter airlifted rescuers to the backpackers then landed in Burro Lake Pass to await their rescue, officials said. Rescuers rigged ropes to retrieve the person trapped ...

Welcome to Mono Lake, a scenic body of water in the middle of nowhere Central California! This lake isn’t just another body ...

MONO COUNTY, California (KOLO) - Caltrans says it will be closing multiple passes throughout Mono County due to an incoming ...

Rescuers had to spend six hours erecting a rigging system to save the two, who were stuck on a sheer and rocky couloir deep ...

Several wild horse carcasses have been discovered this spring on the southwestern shores of Mono Lake, after California endured a cold and snowy winter. As multiple feet of snow finally melted around ...

California gulls that nest at the eastern Sierra’s Mono Lake suffered a catastrophic breeding failure last year, according to the latest installment in a four-decade-long series of reports tracking ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters. As trickling snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada slowly raises Mono Lake — famed for its bird life and outlandish shoreline mineral ...