Antioch Gets $10 Million Grant To Construct New Water Desalination Plant
California could be on its way to a having new water desalination plant in the city of Antioch.
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California could be on its way to a having new water desalination plant in the city of Antioch.
An aging seawall along San Francisco's iconic waterfront would leave the city defenseless in the event of sea level rise or a major earthquake, but new state legislation announced Monday would help secure more funding to strengthen it.
Local retailers stand to lose millions of dollars if San Francisco becomes the nation's first major city to ban the sale of fur clothing and other fur products.
Researchers at Columbia University are studying details about how snowflakes fall and how they evolve once they settle on the ground. The data could be used to provide clues to the changing climate.
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday invited President Donald Trump to visit the state's high-speed rail construction projects while he is in the state this week to examine prototypes of the wall he wants to build along the U.S.-Mexico border.
A gray whale that washed ashore Thursday on Angel Island probably died of malnutrition, according to the Marine Mammal Center.
The projected cost of California's bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles has jumped 20 percent to $77 billion and the opening date has been pushed back four years to 2033.
The city of Hayward is parting ways with PG&E and moving to more environmentally-friendly ways to produce electricity.
President Donald Trump, as he seeks to respond to gun violence in the wake of the Parkland school shooting, will gather opposing sides at the White House on Thursday to discuss the role of video game violence.
A new study says parts of the Bay Area are sinking faster than expected.
Testing is underway in the Bay Area to see if the ground can handle high-speed trains.
The federal government has quietly said it will consider big game trophy imports on a "case-by-case" basis, deciding an issue that split President Donald Trump and his Interior Department.
State water officials called the latest snow pack survey "very encouraging" Monday after a winter storm front dumped up to eight feet of snow in the higher elevations of the Sierra.
A federal judge in San Francisco will conduct his own review during an unusual set of court hearings scheduled to start Monday.
Scientists have found a dramatically declining snowpack across the American West over the past six decades that will likely cause water shortages in the region that cannot be managed by building new reservoirs.
