Ceiba Phillips, 11, couldn't believe what he saw when he returned to his Southern California neighborhood a month after a ...

It's time for another deep dive into history with John Curley. This time, we go back to 1846 to the tragic and true story of ...

The disastrous, three-month crossing of Utah and Nevada in 1846 set the stage for one of the Old West’s worst tragedies. Per ...

Bad luck and poor decisions turned the already dangerous trek from Missouri to California into a fatal affair for roughly ...

The first rescuers reached members of the Donner Party, who had been snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains near the California-Nevada border for nearly four months.

I’d seen ‘Superman and Lois.’ I grew up on the Donner ‘Superman’ movies with Chris Reeves and Margot Kidder. I didn’t want to re-watch too close to when we started, because we wanted ...

At 5:43 a.m., while working up to Donner Pass, the semi-truck’s driver noticed a problem with the vehicle and pulled over. Once on the right-hand shoulder, the truck’s trailer loaded with ...

The answer haunted the 87 migrants of the Donner Party, who in 1846 attempted a shortcut to the Western frontier but instead lost 39 of their group to a winter of hunger and fierce blizzards.

When you think of the Oregon coast in winter, you probably think gray drizzle and king tides. But the Oregon Coast Range – all the way from Astoria to as far as the Florence area – is under a ...