Since the lawsuit was filed, the Kern River has surged back to life with abundant runoff from last winter’s storms and the historic snowpack in the Sierra Nevada. The river was so swollen with ...

While the famous Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is located in Chico, another charming town in the California mountain range, Kernville also has its own popular brewery in Kern River Brewing Company.

Joshua Yeager of member station KVPR takes us to the Sierra Nevada mountains on the upper Kern River. (SOUNDBITE OF WATER RUSHING) JOSHUA YEAGER, BYLINE: Almost as soon as we launch our boat into ...

A warm spell forecast for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week is raising concerns that the rate of melting in California’s huge Sierra Nevada snowpack ... for the Merced River in Yosemite ...

Several counties have banned recreation on rivers that flow from the Sierra Nevada because of swift currents and fatalities. Rafters floating down the Kern River near Kernville, Calif.Credit ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Two men were reported missing after attempting to cross the southern Sierra Nevada’s Kern River on the Fourth of July, authorities said Tuesday. Deputies responding ...

The huge Sierra Nevada snowpack, brought by a parade of atmospheric river storms that ended California ... But flood fears are very high in Kings, Fresno, Kern and Tulare counties where the ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) — Colorful awnings and tents lined the shores of the Kern River on a Saturday afternoon at Riverside Park in the small town of Kernville in the southern Sierra Nevada ...

The Kern River is swollen with so much runoff from the epic Sierra Nevada snowpack that officials have opened a rarely used relief valve, diverting floodwaters into the California Aqueduct to be ...

Melt water from the snowpack that piled up in the Sierra Nevada over a stormy winter ... I visited the banks of the Kern River, northeast of Bakersfield. Local residents know well the river ...

The Kern River runs 165 miles or so, from the southern Sierra Nevada mountains, south, making a sharp turn west at Isabella Lake, then continuing on toward Bakersfield. In the 1850s, the river flowed ...