Cue Downieville. Founded way back in 1849 in the midst of the California Gold Rush, Downieville straddles the confluence of the Downie River and the North Yuba River.

As part of the sentence, Castle was ordered to pay $4,340.98 in restitution to the victim’s family. The Sierra County District Attorney’s Office emphasized the serious breach of trust in this case, as ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

A mountain lion was shot and killed in Downieville, California, last week by two residents who came to their neighbor’s aid. The cougar had a pet dog in its mouth when it was killed, California ...

California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife has confirmed the state’s first documented fatal black bear attack on a human, according to CNN affiliate KCRA.