San Francisco is a great city in its own right, with plenty of splendor on offer. But, what truly makes this place special is ...

Taken together, the deaths have raised the specter of past “unusual mortality events” that caused whales to die in ...

according to the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The whale marks the fourth gray whale to wash up in San Francisco Bay this year. It comes less than two weeks after ...

Hordes of bright blue, jellyfish-like sea creatures are washing up on beaches across California. As of Monday, thousands of the critters — called velella velella or by-the-wind sailors — have been ...

Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so ...

While California is still the top destination ... professionals and local leaders at a Wednesday meeting held by the San Francisco Peninsula, San Mateo County's official tourism bureau.

so it’s not uncommon for us to have gray whales in and around San Francisco Bay in April and May each year,” said Moe Flannery, who leads the marine mammal necropsy team at the California ...