In a typical year, California sees fewer than five cases of wild mushroom poisonings statewide, health officials said.

The Jewish holiday of Tu Bishvat begins at sundown Feb. 1. Here is our list of multiple events across the Bay Area to help ...

Saturday editor and a member of the Public Safety team at The San Diego Union-Tribune. For more than a decade, she specialized in policing and criminal jus ...

A San Francisco conservation group has reached an agreement to purchase 200 acres in northwest Sonoma County for $4 million.

The Southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis), like the Ips beetle, attacks stressed and dying pine trees as well. However, unlike the Ips beetle, it has also been known to attack healthy trees, ...

Woodpeckers are natural pest controllers that can help your garden thrive, and they're easy to attract as long as you know what they like to eat ...

Listed as endangered since 1967, San Francisco garter snakes are found only on the Peninsula and in northern Santa Cruz County.

Chile is facing a severe wildfire emergency marked by unusually large and fast-moving fires that have killed people, destroyed homes and forced tens of thousands to flee. Experts say extreme ...

CHILDREN are feared to be among nine people still trapped under mud and debris after a landslide ripped through a campsite in ...

The Maine state flower is...kind of weird. View Entire Post › ...

Lake Sonoma, Lake Mendocino and Lake Pillsbury all rose significantly as runoff poured in from the series of atmospheric ...