CALIFORNIA, USA — The largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park was closed Friday and hundreds of people ordered evacuated nearby as a wildfire burning through dense forest became the ...

Yosemite National Park lifted some closures this week, though the heavy snowpack is delaying other openings for the summer season. Open (green numbers) 1/ Big Oak Flat Road. The 4-mile stretch of ...

LATEST July 9, 8:50 p.m. While firefighters continued to battle the flames, the Washburn Fire grew to 1,190 acres as of 5 p.m. on Saturday. Evacuation orders remain in effect for Wawona, the Mariposa ...

The Oak Fire is burning in central California's Mariposa County near Yosemite National Park, spreading at an alarming rate through the parched foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The map above shows where ...

Think you already know everything about our nation’s most iconic park? Think again. There’s so much beyond its famed Yosemite Valley, from seldom visited waterfalls to the underappreciated backcountry ...