A prominent geologist, Grove Karl Gilbert, calculated in the early 1900s that miners in the Sierra Nevada had displaced ... measure of gold fever back to the foothills of the Sierra.

Moving into late Monday night and into early Tuesday morning, most of the scattered storms will have left the Valley but could remain in the foothills and Sierra Nevada east of Sacramento.

Rain is also expected in the lower foothills and in parts of the Central Valley ... West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada, Western Plumas County, Lassen Park and the foothills east of Sacramento ...

Intense winter storms have piled feet of snow down to low elevations in California for the past two weeks, upending life for thousands of residents across the Sierra Nevada foothills. Their daily ...

March will roar in like a lion for the West Coast, where the Sierra Nevada is about ... low as the Sierra foothills. The snow will begin to intensify across northern and central portions of ...

A woman accused of sparking a destructive fire in the Sierra Nevada foothills has been arrested on suspicion of arson, authorities said. Police in the Nevada County city of Grass Valley responded ...

But the earthquakes she found taking place near the central region of the mountain ... Schulte-Pelkum was already studying the Sierra Nevada’s peculiar rock footprint, which had shown deep ...