Entire Bay Area, Most Of California Now Under Extreme Drought Conditions
The latest drought data released Thursday morning shows the entire Bay Area in extreme drought conditions, as well as most of California.
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The latest drought data released Thursday morning shows the entire Bay Area in extreme drought conditions, as well as most of California.
Cal Fire has suspended burn permits in six Northern California counties -- Napa, Solano, Sonoma, Colusa, Lake and Yolo.
Garcia, the 15-year-old Mexican gray wolf that's resided at the San Francisco Zoo since 2016, died Tuesday of old age.
An endangered condor hatched from its egg last month in Pinnacles National Park, making it the newest member of the park's recovery program for the massive bird.
After a vote by the county Board of supervisors, beginning July 1, garbage collection rates in the eastern unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County will increase.
It's been a year since KPIX first uncovered systemic troubles with California's bottle and can recycling program. During the pandemic things just got worse. Now lawmakers are looking for a fix.
A Delaware judge on Monday ordered lawyers representing Tesla Inc. directors to turn over certain communications that CEO Elon Musk may have shared with the company's top in-house attorneys.
Drakes Beach at Point Reyes National Seashore will be closed for nearly four months starting on Monday to accommodate road repairs and wetland restoration.
The California Senate unanimously approved a bill Thursday that defines power shut-offs during wildfires as local emergencies, meaning governmental bodies can recover expenses.
While drought conditions are upon the Bay Area, water officials in Santa Clara County plan to draw from distant reserves for now and seek to increase storage and expand water recycling in the future.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to quickly determine whether a pesticide linked to brain damage in children should be banned.
State officials said Wednesday that once again they need to transport millions of young salmon raised at fish hatcheries in the Central Valley to the Pacific Ocean because the waterways that fish use to travel downstream are projected to be historically low and warm due to drought conditions.
The sheer number of whale deaths in such a short period of time does have scientists concerned, but it may just be a case of there being a lot more of everything out in the Bay right now.
The East Bay Municipal Utility Board of Directors will consider officially declaring a stage 1 drought at its meeting Tuesday.
Eight months after a lightning siege ignited more than 650 wildfires in Northern California, the state's oldest park is doing what nature does best: recovering.
