TUCSON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Authorities said officers with the Arizona Game and Fish Department killed a mountain lion that had stalked a hiker the previous day.
MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Human remains have been found in the wreckage of Steve Fossett's small plane high in the Sierra Nevada in California, a federal official said Thursday.
MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif., Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Identification documents thought to be those of missing U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett have been found by a California hiker, officials said Wednesday.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 30 (UPI) -- Rescuers said a hiker who claimed to have broken his leg while hiking in California's Santa Cruz Mountains only thought he was injured because he was on drugs.
MADRID, March 21 (UPI) -- A hiker in Spain came across a bag of explosives believed to belong to the Basque separatist group ETA, El Pais reported Friday.
TRUCKEE, Calif., March 6 (UPI) -- The first wolverine to be spotted in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range since 1922 has been photographed north of the town of Truckee.
BREVARD, N.C., Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Skeletal remains found recently in North Carolina's Nantahala National Forest are those of missing hiker John Bryant, authorities said Monday.
CUMMING, Ga., Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A man brought in for questioning about a missing hiker is not being cooperative, authorities in Georgia said Saturday.
YBOR CTY, Fla., Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Former "American Idol" contestant Jessica Sierra has been arrested a second time in Florida at a bar.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Oct. 18 (UPI) -- An autistic hiker lost in the mountainous terrain of West Virginia for four days has been found and reunited with his family, officials said Thursday.
BRAINERD, Minn., March 25 (UPI) -- Sixty-three years after his airplane crashed in the California mountains, aviation cadet Leo Mustonen was buried next to his parents Minnesota. Mustonen's military plane crashed on Nov. 18, 1942 in the Sierra Nevada -- but the 22-year-old's body was never
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Las Vegas-based Sierra Pacific Resources won federal approval Thursday of its proposed $129 million settlement with an Enron unit. Enron claimed that it was owed more than $300 million for terminated contracts between Enron and Sierra Pacific's utility su
BALMORAL, Scotland, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Despite state-of-the-art security systems at Britain's royal family's estate in Scotland, a harmless hiker managed to wander the grounds, The Mirror reported.
WASHINGTON, July 23 (UPI) -- The United States welcomes the successful repatriation of hundreds of thousands of refugees to Sierra Leone.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The number of hikers who have died in southern California's mountainous Southland region has reached six, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
