Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have long been an aficionado of old US highways, which accelerated the westward movement of the country’s population. We have ...

At the top of Donner Summit, an old cabin rests in a thicket of tall trees. The structure is three stories tall, including the basement. Still, in the heaviest of winters, the snow drifts are deep ...

More than 150 years ago, thousands of Chinese laborers bored through solid granite to construct miles of railroad tunnels on Donner Summit, an astonishing engineering feat and a crucial link in the ...

TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — In what is being hailed as a major land acquisition in the Sierra Nevada, conservation groups say they have reached an agreement to purchase 3,000 acres atop Northern California ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTXL) — Donner is a name synonymous with ...

I have long been an aficionado of old US highways, which accelerated the westward movement of the country’s population. We have avidly explored Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles, Highway 50 across ...