The sudden deluge of the river came as a result of a dramatic collision that happened in the skies above Sierra Nevada ...

Want to show off the region when your Thanksgiving guests head into town? Here are more than two dozen ways to wow your ...

The last significant quake swarm in the San Ramon area, in 2015, lasted 36 days and produced 654 tiny earthquakes, the ...

Spawning kokanee salmon bring waves of red to Taylor Creek and the Upper Truckee River.

The 165-foot rope rappel – California’s longest cave rappel – allows adventure seekers to descend from the top of the main chamber directly to the cavern floor. Dangling in the middle of this vast ...

Beyond the main chamber, Moaning Caverns contains additional passages and rooms that continue to be explored and mapped by speleologists (the proper term for cave scientists, not to be confused with ...

You’ve probably already heard of Death Valley and it’s extreme accolades – the lowest, hottest, and driest place in North ...

The Sierra Nevada, including the Lake Tahoe region, has received heavy amounts of snowfall recently, the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory reported. As of Thursday, Nov. 20, the laboratory at ...

Climate history recorded in a calcite deposit in a southern Nevada cave indicates that the hot, arid southwestern United ...

Sierra Nevada Brewing is celebrating their 45-year-anniversary. One of their original brands, Pale Ale, is possibly the only ...

A 2024 satellite photo shows an unusually active bloom of toxic cyanobacteria swirling in the water of Nevada's Pyramid Lake.

A geothermal well drilled at the Pumpernickel site came in hotter and more permeable than explorers expected, and both state and company officials say the results could turn the area into one of the ...