The Garnet Fire sparked from a lightning strike on Aug. 24 burned through parts of the Sierra National Forest in eastern Fresno County. It raged through an area from the Kings River at the southern ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...

Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park in nearby Coloma marks the site where James Marshall’s discovery sparked the California Gold Rush, forever changing the state’s trajectory.

Nevada PAC files ballot measure to establish independent redistricting commission and prohibit mid-cycle redistricting.

A Nevada political action committee this week filed two initiative petitions, seeking to bring open primaries and an ...

Here’s where hit-and-run accidents are most likely to happen—and the two states where every driver avoided them.