It terns out they may be here to stay. Seriously. Like thousands of them at Crissy Lagoon. David Assmann Elegant terns, ...

Kent served the East Bay Regional Park District for more than 50 years. He died July 14, 2026.

California’s clean air, clean water, and wildlife are under attack. Even as the Trump administration takes aggressive action ...

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State Route 12 cut to the horizon line of Solano County. Somewhere out of sight lay the small town of Rio Vista and the Delta. But about an hour northeast of San Francisco, midway through southern ...

August 13, 2026: As forecasts have changed, we’ve updated the text to indicate that a “very strong” El Niño for this fall and winter is almost certain. The Climate Prediction Center is also now ...

Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...

A gentleman stands in the shade of redwood trees circa 1900. Mount Tam rises in the background with the Tavern visible near the peak and the railroad cut below. (Courtesy of the Lucretia Little ...

Black bear fur can range in color from white to cinnamon to black and most shades in between. (angelmoo963 via iNaturalist, CC-BY-NC) On a gray early March morning in Sonoma County, everything is ...

Rocky outcroppings and serpentine barrens in the southern Diablo Range, near San Benito Mountain. Joaquín Murieta, both literary hero and historical figure, thrived in California’s rugged Inner Coast ...

There are creatures in the Bay Area that can have two heads. Or no heads. Or a head some of the time, until they rip themselves in half to reproduce, then grow a new one. On the surface, it would seem ...

Big Slurpee, tiny straw: The view from a restored part of Tolay Creek, south of State Route 37 and Sears Point Road, looking north. A tiny orange tendril heads under the highway at the Tolay Creek ...