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Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose came under scrutiny Thursday as Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez testified before a congressional subcommittee considering a national ban on leaded aviation fuel.
A new plan to reroute how water moves from wetter Northern California to drier Southern California would ferry some of it through a single, 45-mile (72-kilometer) underground tunnel.
An air quality advisory for wildfire smoke in the Bay Area has been extended until Thursday by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
After a 45-day trip out to the North Pacific Gyre, often referred to as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the crew from the Ocean Voyages Institute pulled 96 tons of trash out of the water.
Firefighters were making "good progress" on the Cable Fire burning in El Dorado County, according to CalFire.
Firefighters continued to make progress Monday on containing the Oak Fire burning near Yosemite National Park, limiting growth to just a few hundred acres.
California's deepening drought has resulted tens of millions of tree deaths, increasing the risk of wildfires and threatening the state's surviving trees.
Drifting smoke from the massive Oak Fire burning near Yosemite will bring hazy skies to the Bay Area over the next few days, prompting air district officials to extend an air quality advisory through Wednesday.
A destructive wildfire near Yosemite National Park burned out of control through tinder-dry forest on Sunday and had grown into one of California's biggest blazes of the year.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued an advisory Sunday, saying smoke from the Oak Fire in Mariposa County near Yosemite will drift into Bay Area skies on Monday.
In southern Santa Clara County a battle is brewing over a plan to turn a Native American spiritual site into an open-pit sand and gravel mine.
A new study shows a population boom for young great white sharks in the Monterey Bay, one that researchers are attributing to climate change.
Firefighters have made significant progress against a wildfire that began in Yosemite National Park and burned into the Sierra National Forest.
At the peak of summer, an alert is going out to those enjoying some of the most popular waterways in the North Bay to be careful of potentially toxic algae.
Crews have contained a vegetation fire early Wednesday that started Tuesday night in the area of North Flynn Road near the Altamont Pass in the northeastern corner of Alameda County.
