The moment your car rounds the bend and the Victorian downtown comes into view ... or even the occasional black bear. The South Yuba River State Park provides another outdoor escape, with emerald ...

The Yuba Water Agency will purchase approximately 153 acres extending from Highway 20 to the Yuba River to assist two irrigation districts with a pipeline project and potentially create additional ...

As part of her responsibilities as Big Bend’s only staff botanist, Carolyn Whiting had assigned Manley to map and monitor the park’s rare plants. Powell and researchers at the California ...

For the first time in more than 80 years, Chinook salmon are swimming in the North Yuba River in Northern California thanks to an innovative wildlife program. The California Department of Fish and ...

Researchers with the California Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of sunflower endemic to the dry, rugged terrain found at Big Bend National Park. The wooly devil, which was ...

Centuries of flawed maps have led to a misconception about Greenland's size, which is nowhere near as big as it looks on the familiar flat world map. It's certainly not a small island: It's about ...

Chinook salmon swim in a northern California river for the first time in more than ... The unhealthiest fast-food sandwich isn't a Big Mac, based on data. See the 10 worst in America.

Walking through the boundless landscape of red rocks and limestone cliffs in Texas' Big Bend National Park last March, a volunteer and a park ranger came across a plant they didn't recognize.

When Christy Perry, a young Houston woman, went missing while hiking in Big Bend National Park in 2023, it prompted an all-hands-on-deck response. The park’s search-and-rescue team, which ...

In a Facebook post on Tuesday, March 11, Friends of Big Bend Ranch State Park warned nature enthusiasts about using e-bikes on trails after a woman was left stranded for hours. The nonprofit ...

Years of human activity along branches of the Yuba River dating back to the Gold Rush have changed the river’s flow and ecology. But several projects, recent and ongoing, have sought to return ...