On the afternoon of May 22, a wildfire sparked next to Highway 395 near the Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, causing major damage to the reserve’s infrastructure. The ...

The Inn fire had grown to over 700 acres to the northwest of Mono Lake, near the Nevada border. It’s one of several brush fires that have erupted in California in the last week as the weather has ...

U.S. 395 in Mono County is closed in both directions for the Inn Fire burning just north of Lee Vining, Calif., near Mono Lake. The fire, 140 miles south of Reno, has spread to 540 acres with no ...

A fast-moving fire near Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra has forced the evacuation of a small mountain town of 332 residents and shut down a key section of U.S. Highway 395, a vital artery that links ...

Mono Lake stands out in the high desert of eastern California, a disc of blue amid a landscape of sagebrush and sandy soil. In 1872, Mark Twain called it "this lonely tenant of the loneliest spot on ...

Wild horses graze along the eastern shores of Mono Lake, famed for limestone columns called tufa. Several dozen horses calmly graze along the shores of Mono Lake, a sparkling saline expanse spread out ...

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 ...