For nearly 100 years, environmentalists have dreamed about draining Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and turning the 300-foot-deep man-made lake in Yosemite National Park back into a glorious Sierra landscape — ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – It would cost between $3 billion and $10 billion to tear down a massive dam and restore Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park more than 80 years after it was flooded, a ...

San Franciscans may wonder why Restore Hetch Hetchy (hetchhetchy.org), a nonprofit organization, has recently challenged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission concerning re-licensing of the Don ...

August marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service. Writer Wallace Stegner once described our national parks as “America’s best idea.” If our national parks are our best ...

The water was winning. Fed by the heaviest Sierra snowmelt in decades, it gushed down the narrow valley’s walls and rushed across the trail in front of me. The bravest and most foolish hikers plunged ...

In November, San Franciscans will vote on looking into alternatives to capturing water at the Hetch Hetchy reservoir site, which could lead to restoring the fabled valley in Yosemite National Park.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KFSN) -- Sometimes, taking the road less traveled can lead to the greatest reward. Spreck Rosekrans would tell you that's the case with Hetch Hetchy, the only area in ...

In the waning moments of 2019, San Francisco’s Water Department persuaded Congress to deny long-promised access to unreachable areas of Yosemite National Park. This power play would ban ...

FRESNO, Ca. - A California appeals court on Wednesday affirmed a 2016 ruling against Restore Hetch Hetchy, which objected to the way the city and county of San Francisco and Modesto Irrigation ...