Midpines News

Tipsy drivers, jammed highways and smog aren't the only health hazards families will face this weekend as they head out for Labor Day fun.

Residents are donating clothing and linens to a distribution center in Mariposa.

According to the most recent ICS-209 the Telegraph Fire has burned 34,000 acres and is 60% contained.

About half of the evacuees are being allowed to return to their homes this evening as the Telegraph fire is now 40% contained.

Six days after a target shooter allegedly started the blaze, the Telegraph fire in Mariposa County appears to be getting closer to becoming just a bad memory for thousands of residents as an army of ...

To view pets being held in Mariposa County go to: www.mariposaspca.org/ or www.fblinks.com/58r . Or contact Mariposa County Animal Control at 742-4300 or e-mail aco@ mariposacounty.org. The pace of pets ...

Latest update from Cal Fire: Telegraph Fire Incident Information: Last Updated: August 3, 2008 12:00 pm Date/Time Started: June 25, 2008, 3:15 pm Administrative Unit: CAL FIRE Madera-Mariposa-Merced Unit ...

It's been a scary summer for the Mountain Area. The fire season kicked off in a hurry when lightning-caused blazes touched down near Ponderosa Basin and Fish Camp in June.

Not Tony Romero. He's stayed outside the cluster of houses and outbuildings constructed by his father.

According to CAL Fire and Incident Command Team 8, the Mariposa County Sheriff's Department and the Mariposa County Fire Department Hwy 140 was closed late Monday afternoon to traffic three miles west of ...

Candy O'Donel-Browne is one of the lucky ones. "The first two days I went up and looked at my house from Highway 140 and I felt much, much better when I could see it," O'Donel-Browne said.

The Fresno Bee, Calif. Middle Jul. 31--Six days after a target shooter allegedly started the blaze, the Telegraph fire in Mariposa County appears to be getting closer to becoming just a bad memory for thousands ...

Some evacuees were allowed to return to their homes as crews worked to control fires that spread through California's Sierra terrain, officials said.

Wildfires Some evacuated residents returning near Yosemite FRESNO, Calif. Hundreds of people forced from homes by the wildfire outside Yosemite National Park are going back.

After almost six days of fighting the Telegraph Fire, crews say they are finally making some progress on the blaze.

Visitors trying to photograph Yosemite National Park's famed peaks instead took shots of flying ash blowing in from an out-of-control wildfire burning just 12 miles outside the park.

The main western highway into Yosemite National Park reopened Wednesday after firefighters kept flames from leaping across a steep river canyon and drawing perilously close to the park.

Digger doesn't like his stable companion -- a large quarter horse -- at the Mariposa County Fairgrounds, but owner Doral Mosher is just happy to find his old gray donkey alive.

The Telegraph Fire in Mariposa County is continuing to burn north towards Greeley Hill, consuming more than 30,000 acres at this point.

Vendors along one of the main roads leading to Yosemite National Park this summer were finally seeing business turn around following a rock slide that kept tour buses away for the previous two years.