Rock climbers flock to the cliffs at Point Dume for some of the best climbing in Southern California. Even if you’re not ...

Most remarkable about this tree is its isolation: it stands alone on the floor of this expansive, windswept basin. From any ...

N EVADA CITY, Calif. - The body of a Bard College professor who went missing while hiking in Northern California in May has possibly been discovered pending identification, authorities said.

Spring snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada mountains turned the Yuba into a “high, cold, and very fast-moving” river, making the search especially challenging for rescuers, the sheriff’s office ...

Tiffany Slaton, a Georgia woman who went missing for weeks while hiking in California's Sierra Nevada, was found alive inside a cabin that was inaccessible to vehicles due to the snowpack.

The Nevada Department of Education boiled down its priorities for artificial intelligence in K-12 to the acronym "STELLAR" — security, transparency, empowerment, learning, leadership ...

This makes bumblebees key pollinators in colder, higher-elevation regions such as the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains of North America.

When autumn arrives and the Sierra Nevada mountains provide a snow-capped backdrop to the changing leaves, your family photos will look so idyllic that friends might suspect you’ve discovered a secret ...

California is a state of jaw-dropping natural beauty. There are the towering granite spires and crystal-clear lakes of the Sierra Nevada, cascading waterfalls in Yosemite’s majestic mountains ...

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

Tranquility at Lake Lucerne, Switzerland Nestled amidst snow-capped mountains, Lake Lucerne in Switzerland is pure magic. The ...

These Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog populations are now mostly self-sustaining and have “a low probability of extinction over 50 years,” they write in the paper.