For four years starting Jan. 1, insurers in Nevada will have a "sandbox" option to create homeowner policies excluding or ...

Up until the 1890s, the tribal people residing in Sierra Nevada’s forests manually initiated small-scale brush fires to keep the ecosystem healthy. But then entered into picture human intellect.

Tule elk are once again roaming the Sierra Nevada foothills southwest of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks after a ...

Areas across the state could record anywhere from one to five or more inches of rain. The Sierra will get some snow.

California’s Sierra Nevada. Scientists and journalists share a core belief in questioning, observing and verifying to reach the truth. Science News reports on crucial research and discovery across ...

The Garnet Fire has scorched nearly 60,000 acres of the Sierra Nevada in central California. The wildfire burning in the mountains northeast of Fresno was 85% contained as of Tuesday, Sept. 16, after ...

The wind-driven fire, which at its peak had burned as much as 1,000 acres an hour in the northern Sierra Nevada, was mainly held within current containment lines overnight and was now 43% contained, ...