While two visitors “were swept through the gorge,” a third managed to grab tree branches in the gorge, officials said.

Authorities began evacuating people from the park shortly before 3:30 p.m. The Santa Cruz Police Department, Santa Cruz Fire Department, Cal Fire and California State Parks all responded to the scene.

A ferocious storm killed eight people on a day full of misfortunes and coincidences that showed the limits of human control.

Police confirmed Saturday that an 8-year-old girl died after she was struck by an illegal fireworks display on the 4th of July in Orange County. It was around 9:45 p.m., according ...

The number of visitors to America’s public lands remains at an all-time high, while the Trump administration has made drastic ...

Update: The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said the 8th fatality had been recovered from the lake Monday afternoon.

A fire technician wields a drip torch, used to ignite grasses during a prescribed burn on private property in Penn Valley, a small, rural community in Nevada County, California, on June 22, 2023. As ...

Doubleday Field and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum may be the stars of Cooperstown's lineup, but the ...

California officials say a black bear with a history of confronting humans and breaking into homes was euthanized this week after swiping at a camper near Lake Tahoe and sending ...

The tragic boating accident at Lake Tahoe on Saturday that killed eight people, including a Bay Area tech executive, began ...