Yosemite News

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK -- Park officials said Wednesday that they haven't seen any new cases of a gastrointestinal illness that sickened hikers and hospitality employees in the Tuolumne Meadows area over the past two weeks. About 30 people came down with symptoms consistent with the norovirus infection at the Tuolumne Meadows Lodge and High Sierra camps in the area, said Shane Sims, a specialist in the safety office at Yosemite National Park.

Visitors to Yosemite Valley have for decades been taught about the Southern Sierra Miwok, whose ancestral ties to the park are venerated in books, brochures and a replica village built near the park's roaring falls. Now, another band of American Indians is calling part of that story a total invention. Joe Rhoan, who traces his ancestry to Paiute peoples from the park's eastern edge, claims his elders were Yosemite's first stewards and that the Miwok are playing down the Paiute role in the area.

It had been at least 24 hours since we had seen other humans, and the trail seemed to be ours alone — gleaming granite slabs, scrabbly switchbacks, glorious glimpses of the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River, and jagged Sierra spires under cloudless skies.But the meditative crunch-crunch-crunch of our boots soon gave way to men's voices. A trio of bearded 20-somethings approached. "Whoa, baby!" gasped the group's gnarly looking leader, pointing to our son, snuggled up in a baby carrier on my chest.

Wawona tunnel is a passageway from civilization to natural splendor. The tunnel, dug through a hill on the south side of Yosemite National Park in the 1930s, hides the coming view like a mile-long blindfold.

The California Department of Transportation is proposing to build two temporary bridges to bypass a rockslide blocking one of the main routes into Yosemite National Park.The bridges would allow tour buses and other 45-foot vehicles to once again use Highway 140 to access the park. A stretch of the highway has been blocked since the Ferguson rock slide buried it in rubble two years ago.

Yosemite National Park must halt more than $100 million in planned construction projects because the developments threaten the park’s fragile ecosystem, a federal appeals court panel ruled March 27.Work on moving campgrounds, rerouting a key access road and upgrading hotel rooms on Yosemite Valley’s floor had been temporarily barred since a U.S. District Court ruling last year.