INDEPENDENCE — Two people who tried to climb and ski in the eastern Sierra Nevada were struck by an avalanche and had to be rescued, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office said. The avalanche was reported in the Onion Valley area late Wednesday morning and responding deputies provided first aid until...
Missing Hiker Found Dead in Kings Canyon National Park
KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK — Authorities say a man found dead at the base of Mount Darwin in Kings Canyon National Park is missing hiker Alan Stringer. The Inyo County Sheriff's Office said searchers found the body of the 40-year-old Huntington Beach man atop a glacier at about 2:30 p.m....
Skeleton May be Japanese American From Internment Camp
SANTA MONICA — In the closing days of World War II, a Japanese American set out with other men from the infamous internment camp at Manzanar on a trip to the mountains, where he went off on his own to paint a watercolor and got caught in a freak summer snowstorm....
Camper Chased by Man With Knife Happy to be Back with Family
A woman who went missing from a remote campground in California's White Mountains after she says she was confronted by a man with a knife is back home and reunited with her family. Sheryl Powell, 60, detailed what it was like to be missing for three days at the campsite and what...