It was dawn, but the sky was black. I was on my back, tucked in my sleeping bag and deep in my bivy, looking up into the morning sky. Except there was no sky. So many mosquitoes coated the mesh ...

Fire officials say unprecedented weather conditions played a defining role in the early hours of the Eiler Fire, fueling its explosive growth from a small spot fire in the Thousand Lakes wilderness to ...

Right now, hundreds of lakes and streams in the Shasta Cascade are reborn from a big winter. For vacationers, it's a midsummer day's dream. The end of drought in the north state means vast ...