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Dave McCoy, who transformed California’s Mammoth Mountain from a remote Sierra peak into a downhill destination for skiers and snowboarders from around the world, has died at 104. Rusty Gregory, former chief executive of the resort, said McCoy “died peacefully in his sleep” at his home in the eastern Sierra Nevada community of Bishop. “Dave was Mammoth Mountain,” Gregory told…

Both Mammoth Mountain and Bear Mountain are giving February 29ers complimentary lift tickets on their big (and rare) day.

Ross Thomas is in Mammoth Lakes where he mountain bikes, horse rides and hits up a brewery around at the hot destination.

Slopes of the Sierra Nevada sported fresh powder Thursday as a late-spring storm with a winter-like potency moved through California, adding to snowpack and rainfall accumulations that were already well above normal.

A storm will bring heavy rain and lightning to the region. Meteorologist Kari Hall has the details in the Microclimate Forecast.

California Department of Transportation officials on Saturday afternoon briefly closed down Highway 20 just east of Nevada City due to heavy snow and vehicle spinouts. Eastbound traffic on Interstate 80 traffic was stopped at Alta also due to multiple spinouts, Caltrans officials said.

There’s less rain today but NBC Bay Area’s Storm Ranger is still busy tracking scattered showers (some with ice pellets and hail), as well as snow near Mt. Umunhum in the Santa Cruz mountains. More snow could come overnight near 2,500-3,000 feet elevation. Meteorologist Rob Mayeda reports.

Winter weather enveloping California’s mountains for a fourth straight day Friday kept skiers from hitting the slopes at the start of the Presidents Day holiday weekend, with snow so deep that plows could not tackle it and cities scrambled to find places to pile it.

Winter weather is enveloping California’s mountains for a fourth straight day Friday. The Bay Area will have a cold front with some spotty showers. Vianey Arana reports.

Avalanche warnings have been posted in parts of California, Nevada and Utah after a winter storm dumped heavy snow on the region.

Back-to-back California storms have blanketed the Sierra Nevada in snow, pushing the snowpack to 106 percent above average, with winter still nearly two weeks away.

A storm that moved through Northern California largely missed wildfire-burned areas Thursday but crews remained ready to respond as more rain reached communities devastated by a recent wildfire, officials said.

Armed, plain-clothes LAPD officers were dispatched to California cities outside of Los Angeles at least a dozen times to provide security for US Senator Kamala Harris at public events, media appearances, and a party.

Just one hundred days until the opening ceremony of the winter Olympics and with the games getting so close, we are checking in with athletes from Northern California.

California’s Mammoth Mountain ski resort is open a day after it was shut down when an avalanche partially buried three people.

The storm has triggered another avalanche at Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort early Saturday morning while the mountain’s ski patrol performed avalanche hazard mitigation work.

An avalanche on the upper part of Mammoth Mountain occurred around 10:15 a.m. Saturday while the mountain’s ski patrol performed avalanche hazard mitigation work.

A San Francisco school community is in mourning over a freak accident that killed a 7-year-old student and his mother. Mark Matthews reports.