23+ min ago   (265+ words) A newly detected wildfire dubbed the Spring Fire is burning on private land in Sonoma County, with its cause and containment status still unknown as of Saturday evening. The blaze was discovered around 4:17 p.m. local time on Saturday. The fire was…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (93+ words) A 3.4 magnitude earthquake struck near Blackhawk on early Saturday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. 3.4 magnitude earthquake shakes Contra Costa County The quake hit at 12:25 a.m. and was centered 6.9 miles east-northeast of Blackhawk. A 3.4 magnitude earthquake struck in Contra…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (171+ words) San Francisco’s famous fog, nicknamed Karl, made a return on the evening of Thursday, September 10, after a heatwave that broke daily temperature records in some parts of the region.Shreenivasan Manievannan captured this timelapse footage showing the fog rolling into…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (310+ words) Elegant terns arrive in big numbers at Crissy Marsh in San Francisco. Royal. Sandwich. Caspian. Elegant. These are the colorful names for different species of terns, some of San Francisco Bay’s most graceful seabirds. A wave of elegant terns — identifiable…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (636+ words) The best gifts for animal lovers! Shop paw print clothing, animal lover jewelry, animal inspired home decor, cat and dog lover gifts and more! Every item sold funds food and care for shelter animals....

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (136+ words) Grotto Rock Park is a volcanic rhyolite rock park in Berkeley, prized locally for its panoramic views and urban bouldering, according to East Bay Magazine. The surrounding corridor also includes single-family homes on Indian Rock Avenue. Whether the current design…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (222+ words) Crews set fire to roughly 260 acres of grassland, coastal scrub and oak woodland on Angel Island Tuesday, and wind shifts pushed the smoke inland toward Richmond and West Contra Costa County. Officials warned the smoke could linger, and city officials…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (234+ words) The National Weather Service forecast for the greater San Francisco Bay Area for Wednesday calls for hot conditions, especially inland, with mostly sunny skies during the day and a lot of cloud cover at night. Daytime highs will be mostly…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (339+ words) A new wildfire dubbed the Ranch Fire was first discovered burning on private land in Santa Cruz County at 2:14 p.m. Monday, with no containment status or determined cause reported as of Monday evening. The blaze adds one more ignition to a…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (170+ words) Heartleaf milkweed carries history beyond its ecological role. Indigenous Miwok communities historically made deer nets, including nets up to about 40 feet long. The land trust also conducts monarch and milkweed monitoring at Sutro. Beyond its own crews, the organization asks…...