The Latest Breaking News from the Sierra Nevada

Trump claims California water comes from the Pacific Northwest. In reality most of the state’s water comes from the melting snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains in eastern California

California’s long, hot summer is being interrupted by an unusually early cold storm from the Gulf of Alaska that is expected to bring a chance of rare August snow high in the Sierra Nevada

Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb above 8,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada of eastern California, tugging a sled loaded with batteries, bolts, wire and 40 pounds of sunflower seeds critical to our mountain chickadee research.

Winter is still weeks away, but meteorologists are already talking about a snowy winter ahead in the southern Rockies and the Sierra Nevada. They anticipate more storms in the U.S. South and Northeast, and warmer, drier conditions across the already dry Pacific Northwest and the upper Midwest.

Californians have decided on 950 local parcel tax ballot measures from 2008 to 2022. Voters in Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District, a 1.875-square-mile special district in the Sierra Nevada, will decide the next parcel tax measure on July 11, 2023. Between 2008 and 2022, 569 (59.89%) parcel tax ballot measures…

With reservoirs full and snow still deep across the Sierra Nevada following one of the wettest winters in recent decades, California is off to a slow start this year to fire season.

UAE Team Emirates rider has linked up with teammates at training camp in the Sierra Nevada

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake shook Plumas County in the Sierra Nevada

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The massive snowpack in the Sierra Nevada this year has transformed California’s most famous park, Yosemite. And the impacts are likely to last all summer, and perhaps even longer.