A federal grand jury on Thursday charged a 32-year-old hunter from California with starting the Rim Fire – the largest fire in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in recorded history. The 2013 blaze burned ...

Happy Thursday. I’m Corinne Purtill, a science and health reporter for The Times, filling in this week for the incomparable Sammy Roth. Last week my family drove north from Los Angeles on State Route ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charred trees along Highway 120 at the southwestern boundary of Yosemite National Park in 2013. (Los Angeles Times) To the editor: ...

The Rim Fire burning on the outskirts and inside Yosemite National Park reached 80 percent containment on Wednesday morning, the 18th day of the blaze, despite the fact that it grew by about 1,500 ...

After Sunday's devastating destruction of a popular Bay Area camp just outside of Yosemite, firefighters have been making steady progress on battling the Rim Fire just outside the national park.

The massive Rim Fire spreading into Yosemite National Park has slowed down recently as the weather begins to cooperate with efforts to stop it. And now that the danger to the park has subsided a bit, ...

To the editor: Reporter Corinne Purtill’s article on the 2013 Rim fire (“Lessons from Yosemite, a decade after the Rim fire,” April 17) romanticizes a misleading narrative that high-intensity ...