Merced Irrigation District and Merced County are advising the public to be careful in and around the Merced River this month due to higher flows.The county says. KMPH – Fresno-Visalia.

The National Park Service is closing most of Yosemite Valley, as the Merced River is expected to reach flood levels Thursday night. The closure starts at 10 a.m. Friday, the park service said Tuesday.

The Merced River at Pohono Bridge may approach 12.5 feet on Friday. At this point, Northside Drive and Southside Drive would begin to flood and are closed to the public.

The Merced River in Yosemite National Park at the Pohono Bridge gauge is expected to rise to Flood Stage by the end of the week. This may impact Northside and Southside drives, ...

The following year, two brothers, Jacob Adams, 6, and brother Andreas,10, from Yorba Linda, were swept away in the Merced River while cooling off during a hike. Then in 2017, ...

At about 4:17 p.m., deputies with the Merced County Sheriff’s Office Water Rescue and Recovery Team responded to an area of the Merced River to recover the body of an unresponsive male from the ...

The map highlights the Merced River and locates Yosemite National Park and the San Joaquin River. The cities of Fresno, Modesto, San Francisco and Sacramento are also shown. 50 MILES.

The Merced County Sheriff’s Office recovered the body of a man who drowned while fishing along the Merced River in an area north of Livingston on Sunday. At about 4 p.m., ...

The Merced County Sheriff's Office says the person was found dead in the Merced River. The search began late Sunday afternoon near the Hatfield State Recreation Area, about eight miles west of ...

Merced River “I think the big news from this season is how long the rivers without upstream dams will continue to be raftable this year,” said Bob Ferguson, 76, ...