Last year someone proposed a new name for the Sutter Buttes last year, raising quite the response from those who live in the foreground of “the world’s smallest mountain range.” The outcome ...

SUTTER BUTTES, Calif. — About 60 miles north of Sacramento, the Sutter Buttes rise starkly from the floor of the Central Valley, the remnants of a volcano active more than 1.4 million years ago.

The Sutter Buttes is now mostly private land owned by a handful of farming families. In 2003, California State Parks acquired 1,785 acres on the north side of the Sutter Buttes, but more than 10 ...

The Sutter Buttes name debate continues, with proposals like Sacred Buttes and Middle Mountain aiming to honor Native American heritage and history.

Zelda the 23-year-old “zonkey” at Little Buttes Farm in Sutter. Zelda is a type of zebroid, her father was a zebra and her mother was a donkey. She lives with a variety of other intriguing ...

According to NASA, Sutter Buttes is what’s left of a volcano last active during the Pleistocene Epoch, some 1.6 to 1.4 million years ago. The range comprises three parts.