Approaching the start of the new year, and seeing friends and family – it’s the ideal opportunity to discuss family travel plans. As you interact over the holidays, plan a discussion of favorite trip ...

LASSEN NATIONAL VOLCANIC PARK — From north of Chico on Highway 99 where the land opens up to plains and Sierra Nevada silhouettes, snow-patched Lassen Peak beckoned us. It was the middle of July.

On June 14, 1914, three men climbed Lassen Peak to see why a seemingly dormant volcano had started rumbling 16 days before. Now, peering into a newborn crater, they felt the ground tremble. As they ...

This post was originally published in 2015. One afternoon in the spring of 1914, Mount Lassen awoke with a cough, the sudden burst of steam and ash from its 10,500-foot summit startling residents of ...

Firefighters on the Mount Hough Ranger District plan to conduct pile burning operations starting tomorrow at Bucks Lake and ...