SF Bay Microplastic Pollution Surpasses Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay
Alarmingly high levels of pollution from tiny pieces of plastic are contaminating the San Francisco Bay, according to a new study.
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Alarmingly high levels of pollution from tiny pieces of plastic are contaminating the San Francisco Bay, according to a new study.
Two Army veterans – one who ventured into Iraqi cities to gather intelligence, the other a computer specialist who fixed critical systems in sweltering desert heat – have been named the first-ever recipients of the Raytheon Patriot Scholarship.
Krystal La Plante and her boyfriend returned to the remains of their three-bedroom home to find only a ceramic drip coffee pot and one of her pottery pieces. Her little "piece of heaven," flanked by trees as high as she could see, was gone.
A judge called for calm when a group of Sunnyvale neighbors suing the family of an autistic boy for being a public nuisance were in a San Jose Superior Court Tuesday morning.
It was yesterday when I was driving from the Mojave Desert through Wasco (population around 25,000) when I noticed groups of laborers working in the late summer sunshine. The afternoon task found men and women feverishly attaching tarps to rows and rows of vines. I pulled over and stopped my car. The thermometer read 103 degrees. I wondered, is it too hot for the vineyards? It definitely is for the workers.
Pope Francis will be nibbling on baked treats from a Marin bakery during his flights in the U.S.
Social commentary full of satirical whimsy is popping up in the form of official-looking signage near a touristy part of San Francisco.
There's increasing evidence the price of housing is blunting the Bay Area's economic turnaround as renters continue to face mounting pressure.
A macaque monkey who took now-famous selfie photographs should be declared the copyright owner of the photos, rather than the nature photographer who positioned the camera, animal-rights activists contend in a novel lawsuit.
Mark McCraken wrote on his Instagram account he had to hit the shark "over 20 times before he finally gave me some space but still stalked me for half a mile all the way back to shore."
A 24-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of elder abuse after he was accused of punching another Costco shopper over free Nutella waffle samples.
Monterey County sheriff's deputies arrested a man Monday evening near Jamesburg, after he attacked a firefighter in a disaster area near the Tassajara wildfire.
An animal protection organization sued Whole Foods Market Inc. in federal court in San Jose Monday, accusing the natural foods grocery chain of deceiving customers in its claims of humane treatment of animals and poultry raised for meat.
The streets at East 14th and the I-238 were blocked off Tuesday morning as police investigated three different shootings in a matter of hours involving the same suspect.
The Great American Beer Festival is the country's most popular beer festival and has quickly become a drinker's Mecca. This annual festival is hosted in Denver, Colorado and offers beer lovers plenty of opportunity to experience new beers while meeting other beverage fanatics.
