The late Richard Burleigh, pictured outside his Fire on the Mountain stained-glass shop in 1977, founded the Sonora Christmas Festival and other Fire on the Mountain events in the Mother Lode.

It may seem like a long way from the coal mines of Kentucky or Tennessee to the streets of downtown Sarasota, but Florida Studio Theatre’s production of Fire on the Mountain brings it all home ...

The brush fire forced multiple evacuation orders near Sonora and Jamestown in Tuolumne ... Constance Lane, Mountain Vista Court and part of Golf Links Road, deputies said. California officials ...