Kent served the East Bay Regional Park District for more than 50 years. He died July 14, 2026.

California’s clean air, clean water, and wildlife are under attack. Even as the Trump administration takes aggressive action ...

But the smoke made trouble when it traveled. Cal Fire Angel Island might be one of the hardest places in California to hold a prescribed burn. Fire engines have to arrive on a boat, one at a time, all ...

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State Route 12 cut to the horizon line of Solano County. Somewhere out of sight lay the small town of Rio Vista and the Delta. But about an hour northeast of San Francisco, midway through southern ...

Pastures are visible from a derelict milking barn at the historic D Ranch, founded in 1870 and abandoned after the creation of Point Reyes National Seashore. There’s an ambitious plan to restore these ...

August 13, 2026: As forecasts have changed, we’ve updated the text to indicate that a “very strong” El Niño for this fall and winter is almost certain. The Climate Prediction Center is also now ...

Rocky outcroppings and serpentine barrens in the southern Diablo Range, near San Benito Mountain. Joaquín Murieta, both literary hero and historical figure, thrived in California’s rugged Inner Coast ...

There are creatures in the Bay Area that can have two heads. Or no heads. Or a head some of the time, until they rip themselves in half to reproduce, then grow a new one. On the surface, it would seem ...

Over 300,000 common murres nest on the Farallon Islands, an indication of the high productivity of the surrounding marine habitat. (David Wimpfheimer) The cacophonous alarm cries of western gulls rang ...

Big Slurpee, tiny straw: The view from a restored part of Tolay Creek, south of State Route 37 and Sears Point Road, looking north. A tiny orange tendril heads under the highway at the Tolay Creek ...

Today, looking west from Brickyard, glitters San Francisco. (Photo by Kelly Sullivan / Berkeleyside) You might think the story of Brickyard Cove, the gleaming new public park at the Berkeley ...