Lake Tahoe draws travelers with blue water and mountain air, but its past is just as intriguing, from old legends to lesser-known moments along the shore.

We ventured into dangerous waters for some underwater metal detecting, but what we didn’t expect was to be surrounded by crocodiles and a massive python. This video takes you into the wild, where we ...

Some landscapes feel so unreal that your brain needs a second to process what you’re seeing. Steam curls out of the earth like the ground is breathing, blinding white salt stretches to the horizon, ...

Castello di Amorosa sits in the heart of Napa Valley wine country. This place looks like it was picked up from Italy and dropped right here. The castle has towers that reach toward the sky. Stone ...

The avalanche was reported near Castle Peak in Nevada County, north of Boreal Mountain Ski Resort.

Search crews located eight avalanche victims deceased, but harsh weather in the Sierra Nevadas prevented them from recovering ...

Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon said in addition to those who died, there were six people rescued, whose ages range from ...

This combination of an unstable base below a thick layer of unconsolidated fresh snow is one of the most dangerous causes of ...

After days of increasingly brutal conditions in California’s Sierra Nevada, a group of 15 backcountry skiers set out for home ...

Authorities say 15 people were on a three-day skiing trip. Here's what we know so far about the victims and survivors of the avalanche.

The group — four guides and 11 skiers — were returning from a three-day guided backcountry trip from the Frog Lake Huts to a trailhead near Castle Peak when a blizzard moved in. Investigators said an ...

Six others in the party survived. One person is still missing but presumed dead, officials said, as searchers fight ...