Tioga Road, the famed route through Yosemite National Park’s scenic high country and the highest-elevation road in California’s state highway system, has re-opened to vehicles. The 46-mile-long road, which closes …
As winter conditions wind down, the beginning of April is always the most important time for California’s water managers to take stock of how much snow has fallen in the …
California ushered in the New Year with a dry and disappointing snowpack in the Sierra Nevada — just 25% of the historical average. But in the month since, like the …
Last year was the world’s hottest year by far since modern temperature records began in 1850, federal scientists confirmed Friday. But amid the severe heat waves that baked Africa, China, …
California’s statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack — the source of nearly one-third of the state’s water supply — is at its lowest level in a decade, a major turnaround from last …