Northern California's Napa Valley is smaller than many people think. At 30 miles long and 5 miles wide, it's a fraction of the size of Bordeaux, another of the world's most important wine regions, and ...

Montage Healdsburg is located in the heart of wine country close to charming towns like Santa Rosa, Windsor, and Geyserville, ...

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Photo from National Park Service The wrong mountain lion was killed after a cougar attacked a summer camp worker, California officials say.

A young apex predator that was hurt in a car crash recovered enough to return to the California wilderness, officials said. The male mountain lion had a fractured skull, head and eye trauma, and ...

Petaluma’s farm-to-table trend dates all the way back to the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s. It’s still a culinary treasure with a historic downtown and easy access to the coast and ...

Julie Brown Davis is the California Mountain Towns editor at SFGATE. She has been writing about Lake Tahoe and mountain towns in the Sierra Nevada for more than 15 years.

Some summers, several ski resorts are open on July 4th. Mammoth Mountain and Palisades Tahoe, California, have both spun their lifts into July. But this year, the crop is small, technically only ...

Over the past few decades, housing booms and high earners have displaced once quiet locales known for their skiing, rapidly transforming mountain communities.

An Albertsons official said all 39 employees would be offered jobs at the Albertsons on North Montana Avenue or the Safeway.

Le Macaron in downtown Sacramento is closing after a year, citing financial struggles and low foot traffic. It was the chain’s only Northern California location.