Hello Tacomans, my name is Gavin Feek, and I’m the new outdoors reporter for The News Tribune.

One Battle After Another” is favored to win the Academy Award for best picture. But the film is also a loser for California ...

California poppies, lupine and native sunflowers are blooming along trails at Rancho Sierra Vista in Newbury Park and the adjacent Point Mugu State Park off the Pacific Coast Highway. The entrance to ...

States are preparing for, while trying to avoid, cutbacks to the water they get from the Colorado River. Here are some key things to know about this moment.

Dunsmuir is one of those hidden treasures tucked away in the Shasta Cascade region. This little railroad community sits along ...

A record-breaking winter storm boosted Northern California reservoirs, including Lake Shasta, and Redding is set for warmer ...

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents working with Yuma Air Branch Air and Marine agents arrested a cartel smuggling scout in the Sierra Pinta Mountains who had been deported from the ...

In recent years, the Jacumba Wilderness became a hot spot for migrant border crossings. In parts where the wall ended, several hundred people would cross into the U.S. on any given day, weathering the ...

The decision to switch to an electric vehicle or alternative fuel source is, for many American drivers, less a matter of personal preference than practical geography.

Grief and shock fell on the tight-knit mountain town of Truckee last week. A blizzard that should have brought pure joy to a snow-starved region instead delivered tragedy, as nine people died near ...

In 2022, Edwin Castro became biggest lottery winner ever with $2.04 billion Powerball. In January 2025, California wildfires ...

From the South Fork of the Sisquoc River, virtually every crossing while backpacking toward its mountainous headwaters was worth a thorough gaze. The colorful canopies of cottonwood and sycamore trees ...