6+ hour, 26+ min ago   (186+ words) More than 130 planned projects at national parks, together worth over $25 million, were quietly rejected by the Interior Department last month, and California parks took some of the biggest hits. The projects were partnership agreements with outside nonprofits and universities, the…...

11+ hour, 5+ min ago   (249+ words) There is a week every fall when the North Grove at Calaveras Big Trees stops being a sequoia park and becomes a color show, and the people who live nearby guard that week carefully. The Highway 4 park near Arnold is…...

11+ hour, 41+ min ago   (272+ words) The Lucas Fire has nearly quadrupled since Friday morning, pushing past 4,000 acres in the hills above Upper Lake and prompting the Lake County sheriff to declare a local emergency. Cal Fire put the blaze at 4,008 acres and 15 percent contained late…...

11+ hour, 31+ min ago   (267+ words) A dog went over the side of a boat near Bailey Cove on Shasta Lake Friday morning, and the man who jumped in after it never came back up. The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office identified him as Geordan White, 60, of…...

11+ hour, 46+ min ago   (205+ words) California’s Biggest Volunteer Day Hits the Mendocino Coast Next Saturday Active NorCal MendoParks and California State Parks are again hosting the coast's share of California Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday, Sept 19, from 9 a.m It is the 42nd year of the…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (198+ words) The sea lion rolling in the surf at Seacliff State Beach was not playing. It was seizing. KYMA carried an NBC report from Aptos this week on a sharp rise in sick and dying sea lions along the Santa Cruz…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (257+ words) A bat on the ground is not a bat that needs rescuing. Three Humboldt County kids just learned that lesson the hard way, with a round of rabies shots to show for it. Public health officials confirmed three children were…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (245+ words) Some of the best salmon habitat in California isn’t a wild river at all. It’s a rice field outside Sacramento in the dead of winter. Research from the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences has shown that when Central Valley…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (232+ words) Tahoe gets the postcards, but a lake fed by Yosemite snowmelt is quietly stealing some of its thunder. Travel outlet Islands is telling boaters to skip the crowds at Tahoe and point their trailers toward Lake McClure instead, calling the…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (238+ words) Free oceanfront housing at one of California’s most dramatic locations just hit the market. The catch: the neighbors are mice, the local birds vandalize cars, and the commute involves 313 stairs. Point Reyes National Seashore is searching for a residential volunteer…...