Along with improved supplies for agriculture and municipal water customers, increased water yields from thinner forests can ...

A prolonged spell of relatively warm and dry conditions across California is rapidly melting the state’s snowpack into creeks, streams and rivers. Hot weather this week will accelerate the melt.

Despite efforts to increase the number of mental health providers, many students say the training requirements are onerous ...

Nearly one-third of California’s residents were living in an area with an insufficient ratio of providers to patients, the ...

AP Photo / Paul Sancya Giant sequoias are typically found in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range ... so when the snow melts they can get a good drink.” Meanwhile, experts say some ...

Growing communities and extensive agriculture throughout the Western United States rely on meltwater that spills out of snow-capped mountains every ...

Only a few steps away is one of the world’s premiere snow labs, the Cold Regions Research and Engineering ... the rain shadow of the “granite curtain” that is the East Sierra Nevada mountain range. In ...

Over the Sierra crest — about 150 miles to the east of Manteca, Oakdale, and Turlock — is one of the world’s largest active ...

In the east section of the park you'll find Tuolumne Meadows, known as one of the Sierra ... with Tioga Road opening in late May (or as last at July some years) due to snow. This area features ...

The Nevada State Capitol building stands proudly at the center of it all, its silver dome gleaming in the spring sunshine.

along the Lakes Basin trail near Graeagle in the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountain range. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to two groups Marilyn cared about greatly. Graeagle ...