RENO, Nev. (AP) — A pair of backcountry endurance athletes who became obsessed with the Donner Party spent the last seven years researching and exploring the Sierra on foot to try to pinpoint the...
TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Branden Grace tested positive for the coronavirus Saturday, a double blow to the South African who was one birdie out of the lead at the Barracuda Championship and now can't...
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on a winter storm moving into the Sierra and northern Nevada (all times local):
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All lanes have reopened on Interstate 80 in a Sierra snowstorm north...
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A strong Sierra cold front packing winds gusting up to 50 mph (80 kph) dropped the first snow of the season Monday in the mountains along the California-Nevada line and damaged a...
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Latest on a storm blowing into the Sierra Nevada (all times local, PDT):
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It's still technically summer but snow is falling in the Sierra along the...
WADSWORTH, Nev. (AP) — Federal officials are making fish-friendly modifications to a northern Nevada dam that for more than a century has blocked off native spawning grounds for a threatened trout...
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Amtrak passenger train service between Reno and Sacramento, California, is unlikely to resume until at least Friday because of a lingering winter storm that sent an avalanche...
TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — The latest in a series of storms dusted Northern California beaches with snow and caused whiteout conditions on mountain roads, closing a major highway.
A stretch of Interstate 80, a key route through the Sierra Nevada to Lake Tahoe, was closed Saturday because of heavy snow and strong winds. Officials hoped to reopen it later Sunday.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — An airport official says an overnight accumulation of heavy, wet snow caused a rear-engine jet parked at a Lake Tahoe-area airport to do a tail stand before mechanics returned it to its parked position.
Truckee Tahoe Airport official Marc Lamb took photos. He tells The Associated Press that most of the 20 inches (51 centimeters) of dense snow that caused the Wednesday morning spectacle melted by Thursday.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a Northern California man who survived a small plane crash (all times local):
2:25 p.m.
A Northern California man who survived a small plane crash that killed his husband and the pilot was upbeat on Wednesday as he talked about his painful but life-affirming recovery.