Late April snow fell Saturday on Interstate 80 and throughout the Sierra. “It's beautiful,” said Marcus Livingston, while ...

A UC Davis professor's pleasure hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the ...

Climate change is allowing the Jeffrey pine tree, with help from seed-carrying birds, to migrate high into parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains once too cold and snowy for them. — California ...

California’s snowpack will be near ... Measurements officials have taken at about 260 sites across the Sierra show that the northern mountains have more snow than the southern areas.

On Monday, a winter storm was bringing heavy snow across the Sierra Nevada mountains ... as well as Etna Summit and Scott Mountain Summit, the warning said. A map of California shows where drivers ...

California's snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains measures 96% of average. It's the third straight year the state has had near-average or above-average amounts of snow.

SACRAMENTO – A significant winter storm will impact the Northern California area Sunday through Tuesday, bringing widespread rain, gusty winds and heavy mountain ... in the Sierra could get ...

Included is about $31 million each for the Sierra Nevada Conservancy, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, State Coastal ...

This annual measurement marks the traditional peak of the Sierra Nevada snowpack — the mountain snow bank that feeds much of California’s water supply. Statewide, the average snow-water ...

Although Northern California has seen weeks of rainy weather ... Unlike farther north in the Sierra Nevada, where 2 feet of snow is expected by Tuesday, the mountains that span between Yosemite and ...