San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake and fire gave city leaders the impetus to build a dam and reservoir to provide reliable water to the city. They selected a controversial site on the Tuolumne River in the Hetch Hetchy Valley of Yosemite...
If you’re driving east to west, Highway 120 begins in Lathrop, where it branches off Interstate 5 in San Joaquin County, and ends on the other side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range about 200 miles to the east in Benton, where it T-bones into...
Promoters and developers hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 1, 2024, for about 100 people at the new locallyowned Firefall Ranch resort east of Groveland. Firefall Ranch opened for business on May 8, 2024, and has 55 standalone...
Snow showers and wintry weather came to Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park as San Francisco officials gathered on May 2, 2023, to celebrate the centennial of O’Shaughnessy Dam, the keystone of the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power...