Lake Tahoe

A northern California man who documents his city’s black bear population has made headlines with a shocking video showing himself fending off a huge one that was squatting under a house — with just a paintball gun.

A rare ice sheet has formed on Emerald Bay, California, on Lake Tahoe, the first time it has been seen in over 30 years — and a sign of the cold weather in the Sierra Nevada in a season normally linked to the spring thaw.

An avalanche in Olympic Valley, California, northwest of Lake Tahoe, buried the bottom two stories of a three-story apartment building on Wednesday, requiring an evacuation of the building’s residents, who left safely.

Recent winter storms have brought rain and flooding to California — but have also provided a generous boon to ski resorts, some of which boast impressive snow totals in excess of 300 inches, with the winter just starting.

A dog that went missing in Lake Tahoe in August was found four months later by a backcountry skier and has since been reunited with his owner.

Tech giant Google is taking fire for directing drivers in the Lake Tahoe area through potentially dangerous or closed-off routes during record snowstorms in the area. One forest sciences professor told the Masters of the Universe: “You are sending people up a poorly maintained forest road to their death in a severe blizzard.”

Firefighters appear to have saved Lake Tahoe communities from the fast-moving Caldor Fire, thanks to a new tactic of clearing firebreaks further away from the advancing blaze, and a change in weather that eased the hot, windy conditions.

Evacuation warnings have been issued for all of the southern side of Lake Tahoe due to the advancing Caldor Fire, one of several large wildfires burning in California.

The first evacuation warnings were issued Thursday inside the Lake Tahoe basin, as the Caldor Fire neared the popular resort area — though firefighters believe they will be able to stop the blaze before it reaches local communities.

Firefighters are trying to keep the Caldor wildfire from engulfing the iconic Lake Tahoe recreation area where millions of people visit each year.

Video shows boulders strewn across Highway 395 near Coleville in Mono County, California, after a magnitude six earthquake shook both sides of the California/Nevada border Thursday.

A South Lake Tahoe resident has tested positive for the “Black Death,” according to El Dorado health officials.

Hearing that “media types” are fleeing Los Angeles makes me want to say out loud, Well, well, well…

A California woman is accused of licking nearly $2,000 worth of grocery store items at a Safeway supermarket near Lake Tahoe.

The drought that has plagued California for half a decade is over — and Lake Tahoe, tucked away high in the Sierra Nevada, is full for the first time in 11 years.

The massive winter storm hitting California this weekend and early this week, powered by an “atmospheric river” of moisture from the Pacific Ocean, forced the closure of many Lake Tahoe ski resorts Sunday due to extreme weather conditions.

President Barack Obama made a stop at Lake Tahoe on Wednesday to talk climate change, spending, and environmental regulation — distorting science along the way.

Three bears — a mother and her two cubs — were filmed taking a dip in the waters of Pope Beach in South Lake Tahoe on Monday as beachgoers stood to the sidelines and watched the unfazed trio cool off from the summer heat.

Plentiful snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains this week has brought good tidings for drought-ravaged California–but less pleasant news for millions of motorists who will take to the state’s main interstate for Christmas travel. Snowpack levels for the mountain range

California governor Jerry Brown, who owes much of his personal fortune to oil, blasted the oil industry Monday, saying it provides a “highly destructive” product.

Hundreds of firefighters on Wednesday were struggling to contain a massive blaze that had broken out last week near the Alpine County town of Markleeville, California, just southeast of Lake Tahoe.