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 ...

WHEATLAND, California (KOVR) — The historical society in Wheatland is making a push to preserve a little-known wagon trail that marked the end of the Donner Party. California’s early history is on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...