The epic rain and snow from a few winters ago appears to have changed the lake's chemistry, with big impacts for wildlife.

The remains of a wild horse sit along the shores of Mono Lake on May 6. U.S. Forest Service officials say the horse deaths are probably linked to the long, cold winter in California.

Some of California’s biggest lakes are making dramatic comebacks as the state’s “big melt” of snowpack reshapes the landscape in historic — and perhaps unexpected — ways. Owens Lake ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters. As trickling snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada slowly raises Mono Lake — famed for its bird life and outlandish shoreline ...

The Mono Lake Committee already has about $70,000 in grant funding it secured to do maintenance work on the boardwalk, McQuilkin said, and those funds will now go toward repairing the fire damage.

Ultimately, the decision on whether to reduce the amount of water the LADWP gets from Mono Lake will be up to the California State Water Resources Control Board. Report a correction or typo ...

Mono Lake seen from above in California. (Department of Fish and Wildlife via Courthouse News) The Mono Lake Committee sent a letter in December urging the board to temporarily restrict the Los ...

Mono Lake is a beautiful but harsh environment, its salty and arsenic-laced water home to brine shrimp, alkali flies and little else. Scientists recently discovered an unsuspected resident ...

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 ...

U.S. 395 in Mono County is closed in both directions for the Inn Fire burning just north of Lee Vining, Calif., near Mono Lake. The fire, 140 miles south of Reno, has spread to 540 acres with no ...