The Latest Breaking News from the Sierra Nevada

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

A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada.

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.

Melissa Cassem still cannot make sense of what happened to her family at their home in the Sierra Nevada during a recent heavy snowfall.