Yosemite Valley News

Members of The Velocity Dance Company will showcase their talents at 6:30 p.m., May 31 at Yosemite High School.

Since 1971, Amtrak has carried most of California's passenger rail traffic on both standard long distance routes and short distance urban light rail routes.

Authorities say a Montana man has died in a rock climbing accident as he tried to climb to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

The fatal slide occurred about 9 a.m. on El Capitan, the 3,000-foot granite monolith at Yosemite Valley's north end.

Our beautiful Yosemite Valley was formed, in part, by glaciers. Half dome used to be a whole dome, the missing half carried away by a river of ice.

The 1,700 acres in the mountains of northeastern Sonoma County became a nature preserve earlier this year when the estate of Shirley and Jim Modini, who had lived and loved the ranch for the 60 years of their marriage, was settled.

Yosemite Valley can feel like a bustling town at times, with traffic jams, wailing emergency sirens, and tour buses and tractor-trailer trucks snaking along the roads.

Yosemite National Park's Glacier Point Road is scheduled to open for the season at noon today, park officials announced Wednesday.

Editor's note: The following is a portion of a letter sent to Yosemite National Park superintendent Don Neubaucher, by Max Rodriguez, chairman of the Madera County Board of Supervisors regarding the Merced River Management Plan.

The road to one of the most beautiful lookout points in Yosemite National Park is set to open after the last of the snow has cleared.

TUOLUMNE MEADOWS to SONORA PASS: This 65.8-mile section travels the remote regions of Yosemite.

Tuesday is the final day to comment on a draft plan for managing the Yosemite Valley in the best interests of the Merced River.

Yosemite Chapel in Yosemite National Park in California is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

As a former Yosemite National Park ranger who spent nearly four decades protecting and preserving one of our country's greatest natural gems, I have seen how this park has created life-long memories for visitors, whether they visited the remote back-country wilderness or the easily accessible Yosemite Valley.