The Latest Breaking News from Sierra Nevada

It didn't take long for a team of highway archaeologists to mark their first find while searching for buried human remains on an aging stretch of U.S. Highway 395 that cuts along the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada range.

Emily and Jeremy Cross from Scotts Valley are planning to travel with their two boys to a family reunion in July at a Sierra Nevada campground. But a big, frozen question hangs over the trip: Will California’s near-record snowpack melt in time?

LOS ANGELES — The Kern River is swollen with so much runoff from the epic Sierra Nevada snowpack that state water officials have decided to open a rarely used relief valve, diverting floodwaters into the California Aqueduct to be used as drinking water in Southern California.

Three popular campgrounds at California’s Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closed starting Monday because of a forecast of flooding as warming temperatures melt the Sierra Nevada’s massive snowpack

Roglic not part of plans, Kuss a question mark, as Vingegaard, Van Aert and the rest take on three-week altitude camp

Some minor schedule tweaks but 'if all goes well' Slovenian will join team camp at Sierra Nevada in mid-May

The Sierra Nevada region where the park is located experienced snowfall at over 300% than usual this past winter. Flooding may happen into May and June, the park said.

Rescue crews are set to be put on standby amid fears that a mini-heatwave will speed up Sierra Nevada snowpack melts and cause devastating flooding to communities such as those in the Tulare Basin

MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. — Worry and fear are running high in this snowbound Sierra Nevada ski town.

The winter that wouldn’t quit has showed up again in the Sierra Nevada region of California and Nevada

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After months of heavy rain across California and record snow in the southern Sierra Nevada, state officials warn that melting snow could turn into flooding as the state’s skies turn sunnier this spring and summer.