Mountain Center News

Officials said firefighters are working in more favorable conditions as they continue to battle a wildfire near Big Sur.

A motorcyclist collided with a car on Sunday, leaving the rider critically injured and two people in the car with minor injuries, authorities said.

Exhausted firefighters continued to wage a blaze-by-blaze battle Thursday against the swath of wildfires bedeviling the state, with the biggest showdown looming in Butte County as flames plowed toward several ...

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center survives, for now. The historic monastery in the Ventana Wilderness saw fires slowly burn down hills on three sides Thursday, but the flames were kept at bay by five Zen ...

Over the past several days California wildfires have threatened to consume Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the oldest Buddhist monastery in the Western Hemisphere.

A wildfire along the scenic Big Sur coast of California has burned some outbuildings at the historic Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.

Firefighters are making some progress against the wildfire burning near Big Sur.

Buddhist monks have finally been forced out of their retreat center by one of the big fires burning between Big Sur and Carmel Valley.

The Basin Complex Fire is still searing the mountains east of the Big Sur community, creeping within a mile-and-a-half of an historic Zen monastery.

A wildfire raging in the Sierra Nevada foothills turned residents into refugees as firefighters hoped to keep the blaze from crossing a river and igniting a nearby town.Thousands spent another night away from ...

State building codes for new construction in high fire severity zones have become much tougher.

The wildfires threatening Tassajara Zen Mountain Center near Big Sur, California, moved no closer to the monastery on Friday and Saturday.

After two weeks of little gain, fire officials in Monterey County said a series of backfires started overnight helped reinforce containment lines between flames and homes near Big Sur and a Boy Scout camp ...

Latest word from California is that wildfire has not yet touched Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, although the threat is still very real.

Today's Monterey County Herald features a story by Dennis Taylor on the effort to save Tassajara Zen Mountain Center , thought to be the oldest Buddhist monastery in the Western Hemisphere, from being consumed ...

The setting sun is obscured by a large smoke cloud looking north up the coast in Big Sur Thursday July 3, 2008.

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center near Big Sur, California, remains in jeopardy from uncontrolled wildfire.

Firefighters on Tuesday continued to battle a fusillade of wildfires plaguing Northern California, including a destructive blaze that has charred homes and threatened tourist haunts along the Big Sur coast.

LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST, Calif.- The Basin Complex fire is threatning the oldest monastary in America and Buddist Monks are staying behind to protect it.

While a stubborn fire southeast of Big Sur continued to send flames in new directions on Sunday, threatening more than 1,200 homes, pollution regulators provided better news, predicting the re-emergence of ...