Bad luck and poor decisions turned the already dangerous trek from Missouri to California into a fatal affair for roughly ...

California could experience three consecutive years of snowpack reaching 100 percent of normal levels for the first time this ...

The mountain range straddling California and Nevada has had mostly warm storms this winter. Finally, a cold one has piled up ...

The nearby Sierra Nevada Ski Resort, Europe's southernmost ski resort, offers more than 68 miles of slopes with chair lifts and gondolas throughout. During the summer, lifts transport visitors to ...

One of the world’s most iconic long-distance hiking trails for hiking enthusiasts is the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). It ...

The Sierra Nevada wring moisture from winter storms that develop ... precipitation arrives. In southern Nevada, the summer is relatively wet, but in northern Nevada, the summer is usually quite dry.

The grand engineering feat of the Sierra Nevada would have to wait until the following year. Summer 1866 saw construction of the Grizzly Hill and Emigrant Gap Tunnels (Tunnels No. 1 and 2 ...

Ski resorts in the central Sierra Nevada have received multiple feet of snow in the first half of February, thanks to recent winter storms. The new snow has created great conditions for skiing and ...

MIGRATION: Sierra Nevada red foxes are seasonal elevational migrants, moving from alpine and subalpine habitats in summer down to mid-elevation habitats in winter. BREEDING: Sierra Nevada red fox ...

The NWS Sacramento CA issued a weather alert at 7:02 a.m. on Sunday for snow showers until 8:30 a.m. for West Slope Northern ...

Active mostly at night, Sierra Nevada red foxes spend winters in dens in earthen cavities in mature forest. They summer in high meadows, fell fields, talus slopes and shrub lands. They are adapted to ...