But for those looking to escape the crowds and discover a lesser-known landscape of waterfalls, granite cliffs and alpine lakes, there's another destination worth the detour: Hetch Hetchy.

The enduring strength of the American art market was on display and at Christie’s today as two sales, American Sublime: Property from an Important Private Collection and 19th Century American and ...

Winter is still battling spring in the high east end of Tuolumne County, and the current cold snap has prompted Caltrans to temporarily close Ebbetts Pass in Alpine County, which reopened for ...

The Pulgas Water Temple — an enduring monument to the water supply system that delivers the vital resource from the Sierra Nevada mountains to the Bay Area — was honored as a North American ...

Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity revolutionized modern physics. This groundbreaking theory explains how speed affects mass, time, and space, and introduced the world to the most ...

including renowned works from Pablo Picasso, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Albert Bierstadt, Martin Johnson Heade, and Jack Butler Yeats. Owens Valley, California, ...

met Prince Albert of Monaco at a swimming event in 2007. The happy couple's fabulous wedding in July 2011 was a highlight of the royal calendar. Charlene is known for her elegant fashion and style ...

This spring, it’s Paris calling. The French capital’s recent art history is the subject of two monumental surveys—one at the Centre Pompidou, the other at the Singaporean National Gallery of Art—that ...

The temple was built in the 1930s to mark the terminus of the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System, which delivers water to San Francisco and also to residents of Santa Clara, San Mateo and Alameda ...

The temple was built in the 1930s to mark the terminus of the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System, which delivers water to San Francisco and also to residents of Santa Clara, San Mateo and Alameda ...