Nicknamed "a small town with a big backyard," this California gem is characterized by its spectacular surroundings and up-and ...

Las Vegas lies at the edge of the vast Mojave Desert, in a bowl-shaped valley in the parched rain-shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The population of the city already numbers more than half a ...

Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail through Southern California defied my expectations of sunshine and mild weather. The aftermath ...

A group of beavers reintroduced into their historic Sierra Nevada habitat last year are thriving, reproducing and working fast to strengthen their new homes against droughts and wildfires, state ...

Northern Nevada and the Eastern Sierra are experiencing an above-normal snowpack as the new year begins, with levels ranging from 109% of the median in the Walk ...

The under-celebrated 20th-century painter spent a lifetime chronicling the Sierra Nevada and the high desert of the Owens Valley along the eastern edge of California.

By the mid-1990s, there were only about 100 Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep left. Conservationists ramped up efforts to save the species, and they were listed as endangered by the state and federal ...