PG&E Shares Hammered As Potential Liabilities From Wildfires Mount
San Francisco-based PG&E, California's largest power company, is getting battered in midday trading on reports that it's considering bankruptcy protection.
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San Francisco-based PG&E, California's largest power company, is getting battered in midday trading on reports that it's considering bankruptcy protection.
Researchers with an environmental group have labeled as "disturbingly low" the number of western monarch butterflies that migrate along the California coast.
A trash collection device deployed to corral plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii has broken apart and will be hauled back to dry land for repairs.
Storms have come to California early this winter but a survey of the Sierra snowpack on Thursday shows it is only at 67 percent of average statewide for this time of year, according to the state's Department of Water Resources.
Overflowing trash and human waste and other unsafe visitor conditions have prompted Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in Central California to close to the public.
Shares of Bay Area-based electric car and solar panel maker Tesla Inc. tumbled Wednesday morning after the company cut vehicle prices by $2,000 and announced fourth-quarter sales figures that fell short of Wall Street estimates.
It was a beautiful New Year's Day at Rodeo Beach, unless you need to go to the bathroom. Due to the partial government shutdown, they are closed.
Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West's iconic national parks on Monday.
A showdown was brewing at People's Park in Berkeley, over some trees UC is cutting down. The university says its maintenance, but protesters don't believe them.
Oil tankers may one day be carrying tar sands, the heaviest and dirtiest oil on the planet, through Bay Area waters. A spill could send the tar sands sinking to the bottom of the bay, creating health problems for many.
Fans of a popular grove of redwood trees in Del Norte County are racing to fund a project that would help protect the area from hordes of visitors.
Singer-songwriter Jesse Colin Young took on the Northern Marin Water District in hopes of preserving the ridge top view his family property, at a hearing Tuesday.
USGS researchers found that 20,000 low-magnitude earthquakes shook underneath the Oroville Dam since 1993. 99% of the time, the quakes occurred when the dam's spillway was in use.
Rough waves remain a risk to beachgoers and marine operators through late Tuesday afternoon across Bay Area coastlines.
The global market for recycled plastic has undergone a dramatic change in the last 12 months.
