The Whitney Portal is the gateway to Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous U.S. and the trailhead for the Mt. Whitney Trail, according to KPIX-TV. Chrissinger told Storyful he was standing ...

Wednesday’s earthquake of 5.8 magnitude triggered several rockslides in the Whitney Portal area, causing closure of the road to the Mount Whitney trailhead and the campground there. The campground was ...

LONE PINE (CBSLA) – The 5.8-magnitude earthquake which rocked Central California's Inyo County Wednesday morning also caused a rockslide at a campground in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The earthquake ...

The Whitney Portal campgrounds are being evacuated due to rockslides caused by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Lone Pine area on Wednesday afternoon. According to a post on the Inyo County ...

The Georges fire in Inyo County grew to 2,500 acres Tuesday fueled by a monsoonal weather pattern that brought lightning storms and gusty winds to the eastern Sierra Nevada this weekend. Firefighting ...

LONE PINE (CBS SF) -- More than a dozen aftershocks to continued to ramble through the eastern Sierra near Mount Whitney Thursday, forcing rangers to delay searching for possible victims and assessing ...

The Georges fire in Inyo County grew to 2,500 acres Tuesday fueled by a monsoonal weather pattern that brought lightning storms and gusty winds to the eastern Sierra Nevada this weekend. Firefighting ...