With record accumulations in the southern Sierra Nevada, snowpack in the Kern River watershed now contains roughly three times more water than Lake Isabella can hold, officials say. Bringing his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

as the melting of the deep Sierra Nevada snowpack has caused rivers to run faster and colder than usual. The stretch of the Kern River that the accident occurred on had been been closed to ...

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 ...

Panorama of the upper fork of the Kern River, Sierra Nevada, Kern County, California. (Roger Howard/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) FRESNO, Calif. (CN) — Environmental groups clashed Thursday ...

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.

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 ...