Chester, perched on the shores of Lake Almanor in Plumas County, is the kind of place that makes you wonder if you’ve stumbled into a secret dimension where nature still reigns supreme and humans are ...

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The California State University is the largest system of four-year higher education in the country, with 23 campuses, 56,000 faculty and staff and more than 450,000 students. Created in 1960, the ...

A proposed levee project would take out hundreds of trees along the American River near Watt Avenue. American River Trees is ...

It's been mostly smoky in July with the wildfires burning in North State forests and in Oregon. Here's what to know.

The wildfire evacuation zone for the Orleans Complex was expanded Tuesday to include the community of Forks of Salmon.

In California’s never-ending effort to thin its forests to prevent devastating wildfires, crews are removing millions of tons ...

The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

Dustin Mulvaney traces the current deregulatory bonanza that the Trump administration has unleashed on public lands and waters to the Wise Use movement of the 1980s and the Sagebrush Rebellion that ...

Abu Dhabi is going through a transformation like no other, adding even more attractions to its already impressive arsenal.

Officials are shoring up water systems infiltrated by the golden mussel. Dogs and human inspectors are checking boats at some California lakes, but a patchwork of oversight leaves many lakes ...

Cal Fire’s new tool shows detailed burn severity information for recent large fires in California.