The Downieville MTB Festival, which runs from August 7 through 10, will accompany the two days of racing and provide fun for those who aren't there to race.

DOWNIEVILLE – Deputies doing a welfare check on a Sierra County woman's home not only discovered that she had died, but also that a bear had gotten in after her death.

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 ...

This undated image provided by KCRA shows the home of Patrice Miller in Downieville, Calif. A woman found dead last year in a rural mountain home was the victim of the first documented fatal black ...

On Wednesday, a bear tried to enter the Downieville school gymnasium, prompting a response from deputies. The bear then tried to break into a nearby home, where the resident confronted it and then ...

Downieville, on Highway 49 about 40 miles northwest of Truckee, made headlines as the site of California’s first documented fatal black bear attack on a person. Patrice Miller, 71, was killed in ...

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

Around 40% of California’s estimated 65,000 black bears live in the Sierra Nevadas where Downieville is located, according to the paper. The bear was eventually trapped and euthanized.

When 71-year-old Patrice Miller was found dead in the small mountain community of Downieville, authorities suspected a bear came later, but an autopsy confirmed the animal killed her.