In 1994, California limited Los Angeles water diversions from Mono Lake’s streams after the lake fell 45 feet, but it has yet to reach its target level.

A boardwalk stretches toward the current shoreline of Mono Lake, as seen from around the location of the historic water level of Mono Lake in 1941 before water diversions by Los Angeles first began, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A canoe tour passes by Mono Lake's famous craggy formations called tufa on Aug. 2, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) More ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mono Lake, seen here in July 2022, is a saltwater lake in the Eastern Sierra known for its tufa towers and alkali shores. The lake ...

At a trailhead surrounded by sagebrush, a naturalist welcomes a group of visitors to Mono Lake beside a sign that reads "Oasis in the Desert." Guide Ryan Garrett, his face alight, greets the group of ...

LEE VINING, Mono County - With a large, black stallion at the fore, more than 100 wild horses raced headlong through the high-desert scrub, kicking up a tawny cloud of dust on the shores of California ...

The Inn fire had grown to over 700 acres to the northwest of Mono Lake, near the Nevada border. It’s one of several brush fires that have erupted in California in the last week as the weather has ...

California gulls that nest at the eastern Sierra’s Mono Lake suffered a catastrophic breeding failure last year, according to the latest installment in a four-decade-long series of reports tracking ...