Oil Train Derails, Catches Fire In Oregon
A train towing cars full of oil derailed Friday in Oregon's scenic Columbia River Gorge, sparking a fire that sent a plume of black smoke high into the sky.
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A train towing cars full of oil derailed Friday in Oregon's scenic Columbia River Gorge, sparking a fire that sent a plume of black smoke high into the sky.
Voters in all nine Bay Area counties will decide the fate of a parcel tax to restore tidal marshlands in the Bay.
The sinkhole that opened up on Tuesday on the northbound side of Interstate 5 south of Tracy has now shut down traffic in both directions of the freeway in that area.
El Niño's super warm water has turned what had been one of the world's most lush and isolated tropical marine reserve into a coral graveyard.
As the weather heats up this week and people bring their kids and pets to Bay Area beaches, the National Weather Service is warning of a heightened risk of strong rip currents.
Agriculture is embracing technology to become more efficient, and startups are interacting with industry leaders to develop the best tools.
University of Oregon sororities and fraternities plan service projects at a Shasta Lake campsite where about 1,000 people left trash that took dozens of National Forest workers hours to clear.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told California voters Friday that he can solve their water crisis, declaring that: "There is no drought."
A dry patch of soil inside a Vacaville prison is being transformed into a drought-tolerant garden in a program intended to transform inmates' lives through connection to nature.
A group of students from the University of Oregon on an outing to Lake Shasta over the weekend are coming under fire for the enormous quantity of trash left behind.
The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with California and rejected an appeal of the state's ban on shark fins.
Hazardous materials crews are cleaning up as many as 21,000 gallons of oil after a pipeline rupture in San Joaquin County near Tracy.
Officials say a wildfire burning in a rural and largely agricultural section of California's Central Coast is now 40 percent contained.
A solar-powered airplane has touched down in the Ohio hometown of two of America's most well-known aviation pioneers on the latest leg of its around-the-world journey.
Cal Fire officials said a wildfire burning Sunday evening in unincorporated Monterey County has grown to 800 acres.
