In a tale of two ecosystems, a new "State of our Estuary" shows how the Bay shoreline and our beaches are thriving, but ...

The 2025 State of Our Estuary assessment, released this fall at a regional conference, takes the pulse of the San Francisco ...

The first update to a local State of the Birds report in 14 years shows restoration working—and some puzzling declines.

The driver was being held for a mental health evaluation after “attempting to weaponize the vehicle to ram into Coast Guard Base Alameda ” on Thursday night, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...

BART is facing a budget crisis of unfathomable magnitude. But that hasn't stopped political leaders from pressing for a new train station in East Oakland.

This is a vast region was once a safe haven for salmon, nature’s perfect rest stop. Its marshlands offered endless places to hide and feast. Now it’s too often a death trap.

Sometimes the best viewpoints are man-made: sky-high spans, seawalls that tame chaos, and old trestles reborn as promenades.

Oakland currently owns the road and bridge that serves as the only public vehicle access to Coast Guard Island, where protests erupted last month.

It was Lakeshore LGBTQ Cultural District Day in Oakland Thursday, as Mayor Barbara Lee and many others celebrated the special ...

If you want California without the rush, these small towns deliver the views, the quiet, and the kind of stops that stretch a ...

Beauty manifests differently across the globe’s greatest cities, from Venice’s impossible architecture floating on lagoon ...

Discover mysterious locations that are said to conceal lost loot, from England and Mexico to Japan and the USA.