HOLD THE pan with two hands, explains “Nugget” Nick Prebalick. Then swish the dirt around. It’s a balmy day in Jamestown, in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, and the ...

A large coronal mass ejection, or CME, hurtled through space and hit Earth square on, creating a mid-latitude aurora borealis sub-storm, Tuesday night, Nov. 11, 2025. The photo was made on Geysers ...

Californians who missed the stunning display of northern lights last night may get another opportunity to see the aurora on Wednesday, Nov. 12. A geomagnetic storm, which is a “major disturbance in ...

A week after strong geomagnetic storming gave half the U.S. a chance at seeing the northern lights, new solar activity could bring the aurora to nearly every state. Early Tuesday morning, NOAA’s Space ...

COLOMA, CA ‒ Ankle-deep in a stream, James W. Marshall bent over and grabbed a shiny object that caught his eye. He placed it on a rock and began striking it with another. The shiny material pounded ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A gold mine in Mexico was taken over by the sons of the drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Mexican officials and ...

Severe weather warnings were issued across Northern and Central California on Tuesday as a strong atmospheric river unleashed heavy rain, damaging winds, and mountain snow. It is the first storm in a ...

BURNEY, Calif. — Northern California isn’t usually known for its fall colors, but tucked along Highway 299 in Shasta County, bursts of red, orange and yellow light up the forests around the town of ...

Aedes aegypti carries diseases such as yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika. Populations of an invasive species of disease-carrying mosquitoes are continuing to spread throughout Northern California, ...

MILES PER HOUR. VISIBILITY STILL PRETTY GOOD. NOW, AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE ENTIRE NORTHWEST HERE, WE ARE SEEING QUITE A BIT OF ACTIVE WEATHER UP BY SEATTLE, PORTLAND, AND THEN UP REDDING SHASTA ...

Australian gold miner Northern Star Ltd. sold 3% less of the precious metal in the three months to end-September than the year before, even as prices in the period reached a series of record highs.