A dad is defending the five-day El Capitan climb that made his son, 7, the youngest to top the Yosemite wall, after CPS complaints went nowhere.

Sugar Bowl's new SnowFactory makes snow in warm weather, and the resort will use it to open its tubing hill on Halloween, weeks before ski season.

The Feather Falls trail reopened last fall, but six years after the North Complex Fire, restoration around the 410-foot waterfall continues.

The Mendocino National Forest lifted its summer fire restrictions two months early. A free California campfire permit is still required.

Wind gusts pushed Yosemite's Dome Fire past 6,300 acres. The park is open, but Glacier Point Road is closed and hot, dry ...

The fight continues over vehicle access at Centerville Beach County Park, about five miles west of Ferndale in Humboldt ...

California's wolf packs had at least 42 pups this year. A new law restores the state's wildlife conflict team and locks in ...

A $235 million rebuild of Oroville Dam's river valve outlet system is done, restoring the deep cold-water releases Feather ...

Humboldt County has logged four rabid bat exposures in two months, the latest on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus.

Gates are starting to swing shut around Lake Tahoe, and the next two weekends are the last chance to use several of the basin’s best-known beaches and campgrounds while the restrooms are still ...