Yosemite Valley News

Two lightning-caused fires continue to burn in Yosemite National Park Sunday. Fire officials said the Grouse Fire has scorched 2,300 acres and is 50 percent contained.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - With all due respect to author H.G. Wells, there are no time machines.

Today we honor two venerable American institutions. On this date in 1864 Abraham Lincoln signed the land grant preserving Yosemite Valley.

Crews in Yosemite are managing two lightning caused fires. Park Ranger Kari Cobb says the Grouse Fire is 848 acres and located three miles southwest of Yosemite Valley.

The Harden Fire started June 8 by lightning. It is located 13 miles north of Yosemite Valley, west of Harden Lake and within the 1996 Ackerson fire perimeter.

More than 50 women came to compete, but only one could walk away Saturday wearing the crown as Miss California 2009.

We have a new Miss California. Kristen Cavinder of Orange was named Miss Yosemite Valley in January in Atwater, but tonight, she's wearing a new crown.

As Miss California candidates prepare for the annual pageant that begins in Fresno tonight, they are trying not to be distracted by the controversy surrounding recent comments made by a California contestant in another pageant.

One of these days, a water-starved farmer will walk into federal court and demand that O'Shaughnessy Dam come down, finally restoring glacial Hetch Hetchy Valley to its natural grandeur and releasing a natural flow into the Tuolumne River.

In May the speedy Swiss climber Ueli Steck free-climbed Golden Gate , a 41-pitch route up the west wall of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.

A Yosemite ranger is being hailed as a hero after he saved the lives of a man and woman whose pick-up truck went over the edge of a road, then caught fire.

Amale hiker fell to his death on Saturday while climbing Yosemite's famed Half Dome, park rangers said.

Two deaths and a close call illustrate the perils of unroped scrambling, crowded routes, and summit separations Image via Flickr Lessons from Half Dome On Saturday, June 13th, hiker Manoj Kumar, 40, fell to his death off the Half Dome cables in Yosemite Valley.

Ansel Adams, American, 1902-1984; Merced River, cliffs of Cathedral Rocks, autumn, from the portfolio, Portfolio III: Yosemite Valley; 1939, printed 1960; gelatin silver print; image: 7 5/8 x 9 1/16 inches; Collection of David B. Lichtenstein Jr.

A British veteran, paralyzed from a rocket attack while serving in Iraq, reached the top of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan on Thursday morning after four days and about 4,200 pull ups.

A male hiker fell to his death on Saturday while climbing Yosemite's famed Half Dome, park rangers said.

Iraq veteran British Army Major Phil Packer, who was told he would never walk again after he suffered a severe spinal injury in a rocket attack in Iraq, clings to the side of the 1,800ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, California, United States.

Yosemite Valley's Southside Drive. Photo by wasabicube via Flickr. The Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park is a particularly busy and congested place during the height of summer.

With so many cultural treasures to explore in the Bay Area, it's easy to take for granted a stalwart like the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art .

Kay Owen has dozens of scrapbooks. A thick row lines a shelf in her apartment and many more are in storage.