Passing clouds provide a striking backdrop for exposed tufa towers along the shore of Mono Lake in Lee Vining in the fall of 2021. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) With a third year of drought ...

A wildfire estimated to have grown to around 1,500 acres has closed Highway 395 from Lee Vining to north of Mono Lake. The Inn fire was first reported at 3:35 p.m. Thursday and quickly grew to the ...

LEE VINING, Calif. — The picturesque tufa towers on the shores of Mono Lake, formed over centuries by underwater springs and left high and dry as Los Angeles diverted water from nearby creeks, have ...

The picturesque Lee Vining Canyon borders the eastern edge of Yosemite. To drive the 12-mile scenic byway into the Inyo National Forest, start at Yosemite's Tioga Pass Entrance and head east on ...

In late February, a series of avalanches buried half a mile of U.S. Route 395 on the eastern side of California's Sierra Nevada under 30 to 40 feet of snow and debris. Three weeks and another ...

As California enters what is expected to be a fourth year of drought, the State Water Resources Control Board is reviewing a request from environmentalists to suspend Los Angeles Department of Water ...

Mono Lake is just east of the Sierra Nevada Range near the small town of Lee Vining, California, the eastern gateway to Yosemite National Park. Seeing it is a uniquely Western experience, and summer ...

With a third year of drought shrinking the creeks that cascade down the eastern Sierra Nevada, the level of Mono Lake has fallen so low it has triggered a 72% reduction in the amount of water Los ...

Los Angeles uses water from creeks that feed Mono Lake. Three decades after a decision that was intended to save the lake, environmental advocates say L.A. needs to do more.