The Sierra Nevada Mountains are accessible near this small town with plenty of outdoor adventures as well as excellent local eateries. Here's why you should go.

California woman found dead in 2023 confirmed as state's first fatal black bear attack. ... 71, a resident of Downieville, a community about 100 miles northeast of Sacramento, ...

DOWNIEVILLE – An autopsy has found that a California woman who was found dead in her Sierra County home back in 2023 was killed by a black bear -- the first-ever recorded case of such a deadly ...

The Downieville MTB Festival, ... events is the 26.5-mile point-to-point cross-country race that takes riders across the rugged singletrack of Northern California’s Sierra Crest.

DOWNIEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A woman found dead last year in a mountain community was the victim of the first documented fatal black bear attack on a human in California, authorities said.. The ...

The grim first, spotlighting California's growing problem of bear-human encounters, occurred in Downieville, a tiny town in the Sierra Nevada, two hours northeast of the state capital, Sacramento ...

Bear entered Sierra County woman's home after her death 02:39. DOWNIEVILLE – Deputies doing a welfare check on a Sierra County woman's home not only discovered that she had died, but also that a ...

Downieville’s newspaper, the Mountain Messenger, reported that the dog did not survive. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is investigating the shooting.