California wildlife officials are now allowing mountain lions to be killed to protect endangered bighorn sheep, changing 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 ...

Outside, the popular outdoor and recreation magazine, named the nation's 24 best mountain towns. One Sierra Nevada town made ...

Blizzard conditions in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California left residents without power and highways across the range closed Sunday. Blizzard warnings remain in effect Sunday while the ...

NEVADA COUNTY — With so much snow falling across the Northern California Sierra Nevada in the last two weeks, search and rescue teams have been busy in many counties training to ensure they succeed ...

A major highway was closed and ski resorts were shut down Sunday as the effects of a powerful blizzard continued to cause problems across the Sierra Nevada, and forecasters warned that more heavy snow ...

Winter storm warnings were in effect for parts of Northern California and Southern Oregon on Monday as more snow is expected in the region following a dayslong blizzard that slammed the Sierra Nevada ...

Lake Tahoe is beautiful, but this cute little mountain town in the Sierra Nevada is charming in a different way.

An unusually cold weather system from the Gulf of Alaska interrupted summer along the West Coast on Saturday, bringing snow to Washington state’s Mount Rainier and a lookout point of California’s ...

Up to 12 feet of snow could accumulate in the Sierra Nevada region. A blizzard warning is in effect for much of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, which could see a storm total of up to 12 feet of ...

The Sierra Nevada region is forecast for some temporary relief on Sunday before another round of heavy snow this week. The storm system, which pummeled the region starting Thursday, brought nonstop ...

Hugh Safford is calling out into the woods for a tree. That’s normal enough for a forest ecologist, but the tree he’s searching for — the Jeffrey pine — was not, until recently, expected to live ...