Tired of crowded national parks, or want something new? Here are less visited national parks in California, what months to visit and what not to miss.

From Crater Lake National Park to Medicine Lake and Lassen Volcanic National Park, this 500-mile scenic byway and ...

Composer Marko Bajzer wrote “The Sacrifice of Prometheus,” a classical-music epic, when he was a Great Basin National Park artist-in-residence. The piece, a musical exploration of the park’s ...

PG&E, which is dependent on the snow melt to help generate hydro-electricity around the state of California, conducted the ...

Mount Spurr lies about 80 miles west of Anchorage, which is Alaska's most populous city, making it one of the state's most closely watched volcanoes. It last erupted in 1992, spreading ash over ...

Action News Now reporter Nathan Espindula joined PG&E crews as they flew in a helicopter to conduct a snow survey at the ...

One of several parks dubbed a Mini Yellowstone by hiking enthusiasts, Lassen Volcanic National Park is home to all four kinds of volcanoes found on Earth, including one of the largest plug-dome ...

What’s next? Lava is erupting from several volcanoes, including one in Hawaii. Nearly 50 volcanic eruptions have been recorded this year, and more are expected. The Axial Seamount, an underwater ...

The Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia erupted three times into Friday, sending an ash column 26,200 feet high and prompting authorities to expand the danger zone around ...

up there near Lassen Volcanic National Park. At one point, the lead wrangler pulled us riders to a stop in a stand of trees and said, "Hold still, be quiet, and watch." A few minutes later ...

Live updates: High winds, extreme wildfire risk threaten Bartlesville and Oklahoma Lassen Volcanic National Park officials say a combination of "heroic firefighting," the clearing of defensible ...