As of 10 a.m., Verizon is reporting small outages in Yosemite and Vidal, way in the desert in San Bernardino County, but no other outages.

Two handwritten notes weighed down by rocks helped lead to the rescue of a mother and her 9-year-old son in California, who were stranded for more than 24 hours in the remote Sierra Nevada wilderness.

A widespread Verizon outage hit mobile phone customers across California and the U.S. on Monday, limiting some residents to emergency phone calls, so-called SOS mode. Downdetector, a website that ...