The major metropolitan areas of the West—defined as the vast region west of the 98th parallel and east of the Cascade and California Coast Ranges—have far outperformed most other U.S. metros ...

The hiker and a companion had wandered off the remote 53-mile hiking path that follows the northern California coastline of redwoods and black sand beaches when one of them fell 100 feet.

The Service is proposing protections for 27 units of critical habitat: along the North Feather River (192,275 acres); South Sierra Nevada Mountains south of Placer County to Kern County (307,772 acres ...