The last several weeks have offered up some incredible trail-running conditions here in the Truckee-Tahoe region. Few crowds mean you will often get even popular trails all to yourself. (Hello, Judah ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 19, 1847, the first rescuers reached members of the Donner Party, who had been snowbound in the Sierra Nevada ...

WENDOVER, Utah (AP) — For a second time, federal land managers have rejected a mineral exploration company’s proposal to prospect for potash on a section of the western Utah desert crossed by the ...

Although he says he was fascinated by the Donner Party since high school, once he decided to write seriously about it in the early '90s, Davidson set about to make himself an expert on the subject. He ...