Latest Yosemite National Park Stories

Chino Hills mother who contracted hantavirus in Yosemite Valley seeks compensation for her injuries from the Delaware North Company, the management firm responsible for maintaining the park's hospitality services. Court documents filed by her personal injury attorneys with Mariposa Superior Court allege that the company was previously warned of dangerous conditions that could lead to an outbreak, but did nothing to prevent it. Newport Beach, CA (PRWEB) May 09, 2013 According to court...

Northern Virginia agency hired to manage PR for Delaware North Companies LURAY, Va., April 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- White+Partners has been selected as the PR Agency of Record (AOR) for Delaware North Companies Parks and Resorts at Shenandoah National Park. The organization has an impressive history working in the travel and tourism industry creating innovative campaigns that drive results. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130404/DC88596) "Shenandoah...

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, Wash., Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kalaloch Lodge on Washington's Olympic Peninsula is a unique and ideal spot to enjoy a national park any day of the year, and its new operator is making it an even more attractive destination. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121129/NY21250 ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110107/NY26567LOGO ) Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts began operating the Olympic National Park destination, which...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Award-winning mobile app developer Red Hill Studios announces the release of Be There: Yosemite, the second in a series of innovative 'mobile virtual reality' apps that let you explore famous locations as if you were standing right there - viewing the scene. With Red Hill's proprietary Panopticon(TM) technology, this revolutionary app reads the gyroscopes on the iPad/iPhone and updates the view in perfect sync with your movements....

Pay-to-play politics used to oppose the Yosemite Restoration Campaign SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- San Francisco city contractors and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) have ganged up to defeat Proposition F, the Water Conservation & Yosemite Restoration Initiative, the most recently released campaign finance reports disclosed. According to the reports(1), 47% of funding for the 'No on F' campaign has come from companies currently...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online As many as 2,500 Yosemite National Park employees will be interviewed and have their blood drawn as health experts continue to search for clues as to what caused this summer’s deadly hantavirus outbreak. The Yosemite hantavirus outbreak, the biggest to strike the US in nearly two decades, has taken the lives of three people and has infected at least six others who have visited the park since early this summer. The initial three...

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The College of New Rochelle announced today it has received a gift of a complete Museum Set of photographs by renowned American photographer Ansel Adams. The Museum Set -- which includes 75 signed photographs -- is one of only ten complete Museum Sets of Mr. Adams' photographs in existence. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121010/NY90842 ) The Museum Set donated to the College is a compilation of Mr. Adams' life work...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Yosemite National Park officials expanded its public health warning of a hantavirus risk to include more than 230,000 people who visited the California nature reserve since June. The increased alert came after a 9th person was confirmed to have the deadly virus on Thursday. John Quinley, a spokesman for the National Park Service (NPS), said the ninth victim was from California and stayed in the park in July. Quinley noted that the...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Doctors and health officials working to find why a hantavirus outbreak at Yosemite National Park this summer has been so severe, have struggled to come up with a “good explanation,” according to an epidemiologist with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “For Yosemite, why this year of all years is there an increased number of cases?” pondered CDC’s Barbara Knust. Nearly 20 years after first being...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Officials at Yosemite National Park are expanding their warnings to some 22,000 visitors, including more than 2,500 from abroad, after a third death has been linked to Yosemite hantavirus. The update follows a worldwide alert issued Wednesday (Sep. 5) to around 10,000 people who visited the park from June to August who had stayed at the park’s popular Curry Village, where most of the infections are believed to have occurred. The...