9+ hour, 59+ min ago   (249+ words) There is a week every fall when the North Grove at Calaveras Big Trees stops being a sequoia park and becomes a color show, and the people who live nearby guard that week carefully. The Highway 4 park near Arnold is…...

10+ hour, 35+ min ago   (272+ words) The Lucas Fire has nearly quadrupled since Friday morning, pushing past 4,000 acres in the hills above Upper Lake and prompting the Lake County sheriff to declare a local emergency. Cal Fire put the blaze at 4,008 acres and 15 percent contained late…...

6+ day, 47+ min ago   (158+ words) The main western artery into Yosemite is carrying traffic again. Highway 140 reopened over the weekend after the Colorado Fire forced days of closures along the Merced River canyon, restoring the most direct route into Yosemite Valley just as holiday crowds…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (209+ words) Campfires Are Back in the Plumas National Forest After Last Week’s Rain activenorcal.com Last week's surprise soaking bought campers in the Plumas National Forest something rare for early September: permission to build a campfire again The forest dropped from…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (240+ words) Active NorCal Nine years after a spillway crisis sent nearly 200,000 people fleeing downstream, the torn up hillside at Oroville Dam is finally going green The Department of Water Resources revegetation project now spans roughly 70 acres around the dam's main and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (223+ words) Active NorCal For much of the 20th century, American wildfires came with a deadline Under a policy adopted in 1933, the US Forest Service required that every wildland fire be put out by 10 a.m the day after it was spotted Now, nearly…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (247+ words) Active NorCal About half the wildfires that start in California are now found by a machine before a single person picks up a phone That statistic comes from Cal Fire's own control rooms, where a network of more than 1,200 artificial…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (256+ words) California is finally gaining ground in its long war against catastrophic wildfire. The question now is whether the money holds out long enough to finish the job. In a commentary published by CalMatters, researchers from the Public Policy Institute of…...