An upside-down U.S. flag, signaling distress, has been hung on a granite wall at Donner Summit in Tahoe National Forest, ...

A hike through miles of abandoned train tunnels along the Donner Pass near Lake Tahoe is like visiting a graffiti art gallery ...

On Tuesday, Caltrans stopped Interstate 80 traffic at Alta in Placer County for eastbound vehicles and at Truckee for westbound travelers, after “multiple spinouts over Donner Summit,” the agency said ...

Storms over the Sierra Pass on Tuesday afternoon delivered more than 100 lightning strikes in just a few hours. The storms, ...

You'll find the Donner Memorial State Park and the Emigrant Trail Museum about 15 miles northwest of Kings Beach and 3 miles west of Truckee, California. The park is open daily from sunrise to ...

California Highway Patrol alerted drivers ... around at Highway 89 after being forced off of westbound 80 at the Donner Pass. Shortly after the interstate reopened, snow plows came out in ...

Multiple rounds of snow will affect Donner Pass, California, along Interstate 80 into early this week. Periods of heavy snow with slippery roads and road closures will occur into Monday evening.

Wind and rain are also expected in the Truckee Meadows beginning Sunday. At Donner Pass on Interstate 80, snowfall totals could range from 2 to 4 feet through late Tuesday, with snowfall rates up ...

Although it was already early summer of 1867, portions of California's Donner Pass remained blanketed in ten- to twelve-foot drifts. As long as the snow piled up it had to be shoveled, which ...