A Caltrans snowplow approaches a veritable wall of snow on Tioga Road, the road that crosses the Sierra Nevada range from Yosemite National Park to Lee Vining on HIghway 395 near Mono Lake on the east ...

Mono Lake is just one of the sources Los Angeles uses to meet its water demands. But those who oversee it want a better plan to keep more of the water in the basin. As the snow in the Sierras ...

No matter how many photos or words I write, it won't do Mono Lake justice. This is a strange part of the country, a beautifully weird and exotic natural wonder that guys must visit to understand. As a ...

Ryan Garrett, education director for the Mono Lake Committee, uses a nine-foot pole to show where the water level is supposed to be to protect the lake's health. At a trailhead surrounded by sagebrush ...

To the editor: Mono Lake was supposedly “saved” way back in 1994 with the landmark California Supreme Court decision. But 31 years later, the water level in the lake is still not high enough to ensure ...

A boardwalk stretches toward the current shoreline of Mono Lake, as seen from around the location of the historic water level of Mono Lake in 1941 before water diversions by Los Angeles first began, ...

Editor’s note • This Great Salt Lake Collaborative story is part of day three of our series, “At water’s edge: Searching for solutions at the Great Salt Lake’s sister lakes across the Great Basin.” ...

Los Angeles has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to restore one of California’s ecological treasures and begin to reverse a century-old habit of relying on water from afar to quench our thirst. State ...