Gov. Newsom declared a state of emergency in Humboldt County to speed repairs to Highway 96 after the 7,610-acre Mile Post 18 Fire near Hoopa.  Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/newsom-declares-an-emergency-in-humboldt-county-three-months-after-the-mile-post-18-fire-tore-up-highway-96/

The world's second-largest tree once anchored its own national park for 50 years. A new list of lost parks tells the story. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/california-once-had-a-national-park-so-small-that-a-bigger-one-swallowed-it-whole/

Forecasters say the swell arriving Friday night could be the biggest in years, with seven or eight more pulses possible through Thanksgiving week. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/the-biggest-waves-in-years-set-to-slam-northern-california-starting-tonight/

Dutra placed 180,000 tons of graded stone and anchored 750 trees along the Sacramento River this season to protect levees and build fish habitat. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/crews-sank-750-trees-into-the-sacramento-river-this-year-on-purpose-and-1200-more-are-coming/

Winter has officially arrived in Northern California and the El Nino hype is real. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/buckle-up-the-sierra-is-about-to-get-buried-with-snow-ahead-of-tahoes-opening-ski-weekend/

Why do young salmon get trapped in Red Bluff when the Sacramento River drops? A new floodplain redesign aims to fix the problem. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/sacramento-river-floodplain-in-red-bluff-gets-a-redesign-to-stop-juvenile-salmon-strandings/

Veterans and active-duty military get free day-use admission to 145 California state parks on Nov. 11. Here's what to bring and where to go in NorCal. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/veterans-get-into-145-california-state-parks-free-on-nov-11-including-burney-falls-and-mount-tam/

The Ocean Protection Council offered $1 million for rapid El Niño monitoring. No Fort Bragg or Mendocino group applied. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/california-put-up-1-million-to-watch-the-coast-through-el-nino-nobody-on-the-mendocino-coast-asked-for-any-of-it/

The Shasta-Trinity National Forest begins prescribed burns Nov. 10 near McCloud, Shasta Lake and Wildwood, covering close to 5,000 acres over the coming week. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/nearly-5000-acres-of-prescribed-fire-are-set-to-light-this-week-around-shasta-lake-and-mccloud/

From Mendocino’s Maine coast to Weaverville’s Taoist temple, here are eight Northern California towns that feel transplanted from somewhere else. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/eight-northern-california-towns-that-will-make-anyone-double-check-which-country-theyre-in/

A USC professor says El Niño could temporarily raise California sea level by up to two feet, matching what is expected over the next 50 to 100 years. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/this-winters-el-nino-could-show-california-what-its-coast-looks-like-in-50-years/

After the floods of 1861 and 1862, Sacramento spent 15 years raising its downtown streets 10 feet. The old city is still down there, and you can tour it. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/sacramento-was-flooding-so-badly-in-the-1860s-that-the-city-lifted-itself-10-feet/

A visitor filmed a black bear and her two cubs crossing the walkways at Glacier Point, passing right between her and two of her kids. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/video-shows-a-bear-family-strolling-between-tourists-at-one-of-yosemites-busiest-overlooks/

In 1976, a plane filled with $10 million of marijuana crashed into a frozen Yosemite lake and climbers got there first. A new film tells the story. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/the-yosemite-drug-plane-crash-that-became-a-climbing-legend-is-now-a-brand-new-documentary/

A 2006 rockslide buried Highway 140 outside Yosemite under 800,000 tons of rock. Twenty years later, a $400 million concrete shed is finally rising over the road. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/california-is-building-a-400-million-shield-over-the-most-dangerous-road-into-yosemite/

NOAA's Climate Prediction Center circles Northern California for heavy snow this weekend, days before Tahoe ski resorts open for the season. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/heavy-snow-is-in-the-forecast-for-northern-california-just-days-before-tahoe-resorts-open/

Two hikers from Poland slid off Yosemite’s Half Dome cables on Oct. 12. Bystanders linked rope, slings and donated harnesses into a chain and hauled them to safety. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/couple-rescued-by-fellow-hikers-after-sliding-off-half-dome-cables-toward-a-vertical-drop/

After one of the warmest winters on record, Tahoe resorts spent the offseason on gondolas, snow guns and lights. Here is every opening date for 2026-27. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/tahoe-ski-resorts-spent-big-after-a-rough-winter-heres-what-changed-and-when-each-one-opens/

In 1959, Mt. Shasta opened a chairlift to 9,200 feet and called it the biggest ski bowl in America. Here's why it's no longer there. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/the-turbulent-history-of-mt-shastas-old-ski-bowl/

Oroville, Shasta and Trinity stacked end to end would still fall about 40 feet short of Tahoe’s floor. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/how-deep-are-northern-california-lakes-heres-a-depth-guide-to-shasta-tahoe-oroville-and-8-more-norcal-lakes/

The company behind Lake Tahoe's proposed electric hydrofoil ferry now has fast-charging power on both ends of the lake. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/lake-tahoes-flying-electric-ferry-just-got-its-first-charging-station-on-the-south-shore/

Toxic algal blooms that once made the Klamath River unsafe to touch have nearly disappeared since four dams were removed in 2024. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/two-years-after-the-dams-came-down-the-klamath-rivers-toxic-algae-has-nearly-vanished/

NOAA tide gauges hit all-time highs on the California coast in late October as El Niño, a marine heat wave, and king tides stacked up. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/el-nino-just-pushed-californias-ocean-to-the-highest-levels-ever-recorded-and-noaa-says-more-is-coming/

Marybeth Granberry, 72, survived seven days in the Shasta County wilderness with a broken leg. A fundraiser is now helping with her recovery at home. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/norcal-hiker-who-survived-seven-days-alone-in-the-wilderness-is-finally-heading-home/

Cal Fire's new Forest and Rangeland Assessment tracks more than 50 indicators and finds forests overcrowded from decades of suppression and a warming climate. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/cal-fires-new-statewide-report-says-californias-forests-are-overcrowded-stressed-and-dying/

An abandoned 8-foot hatchery dam on Cedar Creek blocked salmon for nearly 60 years. CalTrout removed it in 2022, and juvenile coho showed up the next summer. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/they-tore-out-an-8-foot-dam-on-a-mendocino-county-creek-the-coho-salmon-came-back-within-a-year/

Cut your own Christmas tree in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest for $10. Permits are on sale online and at Redding and Mount Shasta retailers. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/a-10-permit-gets-you-a-cut-your-own-christmas-tree-in-the-shasta-trinity-national-forest/

Humboldt investigators found that mariners lost at sea were never entered in missing person databases. They want families to come forward, even decades later. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/humboldt-sheriff-wants-the-names-of-every-fisherman-lost-at-sea-even-from-decades-ago/

California's new Bay-Delta Plan includes a promised workshop on Trinity River flows and temperatures after tribal testimony. Advocates say it falls well short. Read more: activenorcal.com/the-state-water-board-finally-put-the-trinity-river-on-the-agenda-sort-of/

Six bee hotels in the drained Klamath reservoirs are giving biologists DNA-level data on pollinators, and one finding already changed the planting plan. Read more: https://www.activenorcal.com/wild-bees-are-now-helping-decide-what-gets-planted-in-the-drained-klamath-reservoirs/