In the northeastern corner of California, nestled between the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges, lies a little slice of affordable paradise called Susanville.

In Oregon there is a large swath of underrated wilderness where solitude and beauty can be found in the forests and ...

Williams rests in California’s Central Valley center, wrapped by farmland and endless blue skies. This farming town provides authentic small-town America where life flows at a pleasant, relaxed speed.

The lower slopes of Mount Shasta offer sweeping sunset views across Northern California’s volcanic expanse. The snow dusted ...

If you wait long enough, the Thirty Meter Telescope comes around as regularly as the comets astronomers like to observe.

Here are some of the once-in-a-lifetime questions I asked myself recently while staying at Jade Mountain — the No. 1 ranked ...

A single online claim incited debate over the tallest volcano in Asia. Years on, has the Damavand versus Kunlun question been ...

A volcano in southeastern Iran, which has been quiet for 700,000 years, is showing signs of life. Mount Taftan, located near ...

At 8:32 a.m. on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with explosive force—the largest volcanic event in U.S. history. A 5.1-magnitude earthquake triggered a massive landslide that tore away the ...

Europe's tallest active volcano, Italy's Mount Etna, has been lighting up the night sky with explosions, lava fountains and ...

A volcano in Indonesia's East Java province erupted on Saturday, spewing ash and smoke as high as an estimated 5.6 kilometres into the sky, according to data from the geological agency at the ...

Researchers have discovered that large volcanic mountain ranges appear to play an important role in the global carbon cycle.