“This dog did rescues of small planes that crashed on Donner Pass as the lead dog of the sled that brought the doctor up,” says author and historian Mark McLaughlin. As McLaughlin tells ...

Caltrans briefly held traffic on Interstate 80 over Donner Pass on Thursday afternoon due ... delay trips to the Sierra Nevada until after the storm clears, even though traffic will be more ...

The Donner Memorial State Park and Emigrant Trail ... was en route to California when their wagon train encountered a severe snow storm. Only half of the pioneers survived (many by resorting ...