YOSEMITE — Yosemite National Park anticipates an extremely busy Memorial Day Weekend. Visitors in personal vehicles arriving late morning through mid-day should expect extensive delays getting into and moving about the park, particularly in Yosemite Valley and Glacier Point. Visitors are urged to enter the park before 9 a.m. or after 6 p.m. in order to avoid traffic congestion and ...

Submitted by Karen Smith — MARIPOSA — The Rotary Mother Load Outhouse Derby Races are coming to Mariposa, and now’s the time to start working on your derby entry! Outhouse Races pit teams of costumed outhouse racers against each other. One person rides inside on the “throne” while the other two team members push the decorated outhouses down the racetrack. ...

NORTH FORK — When Tahsha Goldberg and her family lost their home to a fire on Friday, friends do what friends do — they set up a GoFundMe page to help the family through this tough time. The family lost everything they own when their mobile home caught fire just after 10 p.m. last night, and burned to the ground. ...

O’NEALS — One person is dead and three others injured after a crash on Highway 41 that closed down the road and ended in an arrest for DUI and vehicular manslaughter. Just before 10 p.m. on Friday, May 20, a 23-year-old Clovis woman was northbound on Highway 41 just north of Road 200 when she crashed into the back of ...

NORTH FORK — A family in the Bass Lake Mobile Home park lost everything, including some of their pets, in a fire that destroyed their mobile home last night. Just after 10 p.m. on Friday, a couple and their four children were settling in for the night when a neighbor saw smoke and ran to the house, shouting at them ...

SIERRA NATIONAL FOREST – Memorial Day is next week, and due to the unprecedented number of hazard trees present, and the associated risk to the public, the Sierra National Forest (SNF) will delay the opening of a number of campgrounds. Keeping things in perspective, forces have been working virtually non-stop since last fall on this problem, and the majority of ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY — Firefighters in the Mariposa area were kept busy today responding to a pair of vegetation fires, with others moving up to cover stations left unmanned when their engines were called out. Just after 3:30 p.m. crews were dispatched to reports of an escaped control burn on Ben Hur Road just south of Mariposa. First engine at scene ...

YOSEMITE — As a safety precaution, Yosemite National Park Officials have announced that the Tioga Road and the Glacier Point Road will close tonight, Friday, May, 20 due to a forecast of snow and freezing conditions. The Tioga Road will close at 8 p.m and the Glacier Point Road will close at 9 p.m. The roads will reopen as soon ...

MARIPOSA COUNTY — The public is encouraged to attend a Tree Mortality Workshop / Resource Fair in Ponderosa Basin at County Fire Station #32, 5618 Creel Road on Saturday, June 11, from 9 a.m. to  2 p.m. The event is being hosted by the Mariposa County Office of Emergency Services. This will be an all-encompassing event to connect land/homeowners with ...

CALIFORNIA — If you want to vote in the June 7 primary and you’re not registered, you’re running out of time. The deadline to register or re-register to vote for any election is 11:59:59 p.m. Pacific Time on the 15th calendar day before that election — that is May 23. It’s easy to register, just go online to http://registertovote.ca.gov/ To ...