The nearby Sierra Nevada Ski Resort, Europe's southernmost ski resort, offers more than 68 miles of slopes with chair lifts and gondolas throughout. During the summer, lifts transport visitors to ...

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

The Sierra Nevada wring moisture from winter storms that develop ... precipitation arrives. In southern Nevada, the summer is relatively wet, but in northern Nevada, the summer is usually quite dry.

The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly one-third of California’s water supply, began the year in good shape, at 108% of normal. But as anyone who went skiing or did yardwork over ...

Tom Stephenson, who leads the Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery Program, said the number of ewes, or female sheep, counted this summer is about the same as the previous summer. Plus ...

The grand engineering feat of the Sierra Nevada would have to wait until the following year. Summer 1866 saw construction of the Grizzly Hill and Emigrant Gap Tunnels (Tunnels No. 1 and 2 ...

Conclusive evidence of foundering, however, has been hard to come by. Peering deep under California's Sierra Nevada, Vera Schulte-Pelkum and Deborah Kilb discovered new evidence of lithospheric ...

Ski resorts in the central Sierra Nevada have received multiple feet of snow in the first half of February, thanks to recent winter storms. The new snow has created great conditions for skiing and ...