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Yosemite National Park is searching for 30 year old George Penca, from Hawthorne, California. Penca was last seen on the Upper Yosemite Fall trail in Yosemite Valley where he was hiking with a group of people from his church. He has been missing since Friday, June 17. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/pencasar1.htm

The majesty of Yosemite Falls, North America’s highest waterfall, can now be viewed on Yosemite Conservancy’s website thanks to a new webcam. The nonprofit organization is connecting people to Yosemite National Park using webcams and a variety of technologies. https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/fallswebcam.htm

A rockfall in the Hetch Hetchy area of Yosemite National Park closes trail east of Wapama Falls. At approximately 1:30 p.m. on March 31, a large rockfall occurred from the cliff just east of Wapama Falls above the Hetch Hetchy reservoir. No visitors were injured. However, the trail was closed …

A hiker fell from the Half Dome cables in Yosemite National Park yesterday afternoon at approximately 4:30 pm. The male hiker was on the Half Dome cables hiking with another person during thunder storm activity. Park Rangers were notified that a hiker had slipped and fell off the Half Dome …

A month after COVID-19 infections began to surge following the Thanksgiving holiday, the virus continues to devastate the San Joaquin Valley. Hospitals are reporting more patients with COVID-19 than ever, intensive care units continue to report only a handful of open beds each day, and hundreds of healthcare workers who …

Video taken Saturday, April 7, 2018, shows some flooding along Southside Drive in Yosemite Valley, approaching Sentinel Bridge. You also get a look at a swollen Yosemite Falls. … Click to Continue »

It stood for about a century, right at the center of this vast green sward, but a windstorm at the stub end of the year took it down, felling one … Click to Continue »

A passenger suffered non-life threatening injuries in a car crash on Monday afternoon in Atwater when the driver fell asleep at the wheel, the Atwater Police Department reported. mvelez@mercedsun-star.com … Click to Continue »

A passenger suffered non-life threatening injuries in a car crash on Monday afternoon in Atwater when the driver fell asleep at the wheel, the Atwater Police Department reported. At about … Click to Continue »

Eastbound traffic on Highway 152 on Pacheco Pass was delayed all day Tuesday as authorities were recovering a big rig that overturned hundreds of feet off the road. The California … Click to Continue »

Falls Fire: Updated: August 01, 2017 6:45 pm County: Tuolumne County Location: Off Merced Falls Rd, northwest of Lake McClure Acres Burned – Containment: 20 acres. Forward spread stopped.

Sometimes it’s the little wonders that make Yosemite National Park special. Water in the Tuolumne and Merced watersheds begins in the high country, moves downstream through creeks, and finally joins powerful rivers travelling toward the Pacific Ocean. Take a moment and listen to the water flowing through the fen at …

A 44-year-old woman from Salinas was killed in a single-vehicle crash on the way to visit a family member in jail on Sunday evening, according to California Highway Patrol officials. … Click to Continue »