KING CITY, Calif. — One-hundred-sixty acres of formerly private land in the Ventana Wilderness will now be protected. Earlier this week, the Wilderness Land Trust purchased the Church Creek ...

An all-out search continued Thursday for missing hiker Caroline Meister and still no sign of the 30-year-old who left the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center Monday morning for a hike and never returned.

A Monterey County search-and-rescue team hiked 16 miles to help a hiker who was hit with the norovirus while backpacking in the Ventana Wilderness near Big Sur, California.

The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, Cal Fire, the U.S. Coast Guard and urban search and rescue crews pulled together on Dec. 28, 2024 to rescue a fallen hiker in the Ventana Wilderness.

Authorities say she went on a hike in the Ventana Wilderness in the Big Sur area. MORE: Authorities calling 83-year-old hiker's death in Marin County suspicious.

A 30-year-old woman has been missing for four days after going on a day hike in the Ventana Wilderness, a remote and steep area along California’s Central Coast, authorities said Friday.

Monterey County Sheriff Tina M. Nieto confirmed during a news conference on Friday that the body of 30-year-old Caroline Meister was found by search and rescue teams around 10:45 a.m. at the base ...

A man convicted for his role in a "large-scale" illegal cannabis growing operation within a national forest in Central California has been sentenced to federal prison, prosecutors said.

A Monterey County search-and-rescue team hiked 16 miles to help a hiker who was hit with the norovirus while backpacking in the Ventana Wilderness near Big Sur, California.

Since Friday, King had been camping and hiking with two friends at the Sykes Hot Springs area in the Ventana Wilderness.. At about 4 p.m. Sunday, he started feeling bad and began vomiting.

A Monterey County search-and-rescue team hiked 16 miles to help a hiker who was hit with the norovirus while backpacking in the Ventana Wilderness near Big Sur, California.

A Monterey County search-and-rescue team hiked 16 miles to help a hiker who was hit with the norovirus while backpacking in the Ventana Wilderness near Big Sur, California.