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How much development is too much for Yosemite Valley? National parks officials call for sweeping changes that include eliminating bicycle and horse rentals and remove an ice rink, swimming pools and art center in an attempt to balance nature and recreation.

Yosemite National Park officials this week vowed they have strived for transparency in dealing with a hantavirus outbreak at the park, which has sickened four people and killed two others. But, reporting by The Union Democrat has found, the process has been far more opaque.

Since the beginning of the year, 18 people have died at Yosemite National Park, an unfortunate increase from recent years and a cause for alarm for the park’s rangers.

Eye-popping gas prices on a weekend trip to Yosemite National Park in California have Damaris Santos-Palmer rethinking a family road trip.