Among these species is the Tule elk, an elk that’s endemic to California but hadn’t been seen in the Sierra foothills for ...

This acquisition, which will restore 17,000 acres to the Tule River Indian Tribe, is the largest-ever "land return" deal in ...

Last year’s Capitol Christmas tree was an 80-foot Sitka spruce harvested in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. In 2023, a ...

A powerful blizzard howled in the Sierra Nevada, closing a long stretch of Interstate 80 in California, forcing ski resorts to shut down, and leaving tens of thousands of homes without power. More ...

The return of the iconic predators to the Golden State has been a quiet success story—but this month, state officials ...

A weekend spring storm that drenched the Bay Area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada. The wet weather ...

Wild gray wolves have killed dozens of livestock in the Sierra Nevada mountains in recent months, prompting California ...

Stretching across the western foothills of the Sierra Nevadas, Gold Country is hands down one of California's most underrated ...

The third snow survey of the water season — which began Oct. 1 — was conducted on Thursday morning at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada. While a Thursday update from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows ...

The high peaks of the southern and central Sierra Nevada are home to a unique and endangered animal, the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. John Muir called them “the bravest of all the Sierra mountaineers, ...