Exposed tufa towers rise along the shore of Mono Lake in Lee Vining, Calif., in this 2021 photo. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) With its haunting rock spires and salt-crusted shores, Mono ...

The canoe glided in the salty water of Mono Lake and floated through an otherworldly landscape of towering tufa outcroppings that look like castles made out of dripping mud. The water was clouded by ...

When dust storms began rising off the dry bed of Owens Lake, authorities in the Eastern Sierra blamed Los Angeles’ thirst. The city had, after all, drained the lake in the 1920s to serve its faucets.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — California authorities face renewed pressure to preserve the valuable salty waters of the Mono Lake – as despite recent rainfall, a historic drought and demands from the Los ...

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 long been a symbol of ...

Lee Vining, Calif. — For those who live near the briny shores of California’s Mono Lake, October can be a dreaded month. That’s when turbulent winds scour Mono’s exposed lake bed, or “bathtub ring,” ...

MONO LAKE, Calif. (KABC) -- There's no place in California quite like Mono Lake as the salt-water body just east of Yosemite National Park features other-worldly rock formations. After being depleted ...

There was a time when it was hard to find yellow warblers at Rush Creek. But on a recent sunny morning, a yellow warbler plunged through a gap in a stream-side cottonwood forest, flying back to the ...

You are looking at one of the oldest and saltiest lakes in all of North America covering 65 square miles mona lake according to state parks is over a million years old. This lake along highway 3 95 is ...

In 1862, Mark Twain traveled to Mono Lake, the vast, ancient landmark east of Yosemite National Park famous for its craggy limestone rock formations. Though he nearly drowned trying to cross the ...

Like many Bay Area residents, I’ve spent plenty of time on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada. But my husband and I recently took the plunge behind the “Granite Curtain,” dropping five miles and ...