One of the state's most pristine river canyons - the McCloud River with its epic wild trout - was spared when fire crews staved off a 46,000-acre wildfire. On the river last week, muted flames and ...

More than 100 years ago, wild winter-run Chinook salmon from the icy cold McCloud River near California's Mount Shasta ended up in the glacially cold mountain waters of New Zealand, where they ...

As the weather warms and people venture onto North State lakes and waterways, law enforcement and park officials in Shasta and Siskiyou counties are warning of fast-moving, frigid water that sweeps ...

SHASTA COUNTY (KPIX) -- In a life flight that could change the course of one tribe's history, a helicopter delivered 20,000 endangered salmon eggs to a remote area in Shasta County, in an effort to ...

As part of a long-term effort to return winter-run chinook salmon to the McCloud River, 20,000 salmon eggs were placed in the river for the first time since Shasta Dam was built in the early 1940s.

For the first time in nearly a century, adult winter-run Chinook salmon have been spotted swimming in the McCloud River, a Northern California waterway. On July 15, experts with the California ...

Spring brings stunning waterfalls to Northern California’s mountains and valleys, especially in the Shasta-Cascade range, where cascades of water tumble down rocky outcroppings, much to the delight of ...