Article continues below this ad The head of the Coastal Trail Conservancy of Santa Cruz County told SFGATE he thinks the nearly $4.3 billion is a low-balled number. “The estimate still feels low.

Every surfer, fisher, and waterperson in Santa Cruz knows this situation well: When strong winds blow across the ocean, the water quickly turns icy for a few days. But something peculiar happens in ...

The future of San Francisco’s iconic fog has been debated in media stories during recent years, and some experts note a diminished cloud cover along the California coast that could lead to a warming ...

Species such as the widely admired coastal redwoods, which get up to 40% of their yearly water intake from fog, could be threatened if that resource dwindled. Daniel Fernandez, an environmental ...

Will Fourt, a senior planner for the Santa Cruz District of California State Parks, said flames reached higher than the treetops at Big Basin – over 300 feet – “completely altering the ...

“From the data, I can’t foresee it any time soon,’’ said Rachel Clemesha, a project scientist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego who studies the ...

Nestled along Ocean Street in the coastal paradise of Santa Cruz sits a culinary time capsule where the coffee flows freely and the potato pancakes achieve a level of crispy-yet-tender perfection that ...

Where: 4045 St Helena Hwy, Calistoga, CA 94515 This storybook mansion looks like it was plucked right from a fairy tale and dropped into Southern California. The striking blue-green roof and elegant ...