This summer, a large restoration project is set to take place at Vikingsholm, the famed castle in Lake Tahoe's Emerald Bay.

Earthquakes in Western Nevada are caused by the extension that is pulling Nevada apart and wrenching created as the Sierra Nevada is pulled to the north because it is caught up in the Pacific ...

The Newsom administration is pushing to build a $20-billion water tunnel. As state regulators hold hearings, the fight over ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Forecasters issued some of their rarest and most extreme alerts on Wednesday as they warned a powerful storm system would stall over the central part of the country.

A dangerous and potentially historic flood event is bearing down on 22 million Americans from Arkansas to Ohio this week.

In a much-needed break after multiple years of severe droughts over the past two decades, California’s statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly one-third of the state’s water ...

When Alex Meruelo unveiled plans for a $1 billion expansion to his Grand Sierra Resort in Reno 18 months ago — including a ...

This is particularly important in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada and Washington, the states where earthquakes are most common. In California, insurance companies are required to offer ...

At 90% of the state historical average, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is far better than last year. But it’s nothing like the record-smashing 2023. Despite some heavy rainstorms and squalls of snow ...