Tiffany Slaton had no contact with her parents. She had gone missing during a hike in the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains.

After three weeks alone in the California wilderness, 28-year-old Tiffany Slaton was found alive at a remote resort this week ...

Hantavirus is a rare but potentially fatal virus spread by mice. This California mountain town is seeing a concerning uptick ...

This was May at Mammoth Mountain. After recently moving to the Bay Area, I thought my ski season was over, having been ...

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A 28-year-old woman described how she survived for weeks outdoors in California’s eastern Sierra mountains by foraging for ...

Tiffany Slaton, of Jeffersonville, Georgia, was miraculously found alive after being missing for nearly three weeks in the ...

A Georgia woman who went missing for weeks in California's Sierra Nevada said that she was trapped by an avalanche and survived off wild leeks and snowmelt before she was found this week in a snowy ...

The below article is reposted with permission by the Weather West Blog. Recent conditions in California: Unsettled, though ...

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As climate change fuels increasingly erratic weather, scientists need a better read on snowpack temperature to understand ...

Spending a month on Amtrak wasn’t like a road trip or hopping between flights—it was its own world. Time stretched, ...