Suspicious tactics were used by supporters of the O’Shaughnessy Dam and Hetch Hetchy reservoir, built in the early 20th century in the middle of Yosemite Valley to supply water to residents of the San ...

A 5-mile trail (round-trip) leads from the Hetch Hetchy Valley’s O’Shaughnessy Dam to Wapama Falls in Yosemite National Park. Christopher Reynolds/Los Angeles Times/TNS The water was winning. Fed by ...

Six reindeer were purchased by The Columbus Dispatch for a Christmas celebration. Afterwards, the reindeer were donated to the city to start a zoo.

Snow showers and wintry weather came to Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park on May 2 during a visit by San Francisco officials to celebrate the centennial of O’Shaughnessy Dam, the ...

This story has been updated with additional information and to properly reflect an attached video showed water flowing over the O'Shaughnessy Dam. The rain has slowed for much of central Ohio on ...

DAMMING THE granite-ribbed Hetch Hetchy Valley was a bad idea nearly a century ago when San Francisco's water and power system was created. The work obliterated a craggy canyon in the Sierra that ...

A bit off the typical Yosemite road trip itinerary, a trip to the Hetch Hetchy Valley in the northwest corner of the park surrounds visitors in solitude. One if its signature features is Wapama Falls, ...

On Sept. 17, 1927, The Columbus Dispatch announced that it had given six full-blooded Alaskan reindeer to the city of Columbus as a gift. “They were placed in an enclosure in the city park near ...