The tiny plaza with a diminutive name first sprouted along traffic-clogged Divisadero Street, one of the city’s main cross-town thoroughfares.
Andres Power, director of San Francisco’s Pavement to Parks program, stands in the Divisadero Street parklet, which replaced two parking spaces.
Here at Battle Creek, an icy stream that tumbles off Mount Lassen, state and federal agencies are spending $128 million to bring endangered salmon back to 48 miles of water blocked by dams for nearly a century.
Work is under way on the $128 million project to restore endangered salmon and steelhead on Battle Creek in Shasta County. But while one agency is managing the project, another is allowing clear-cut logging upstream that could jeopardize the restoration, biologists and residents argue.
Marily Woodhouse checks a water sample she took near a clear-cut forest. Her group is suing Sierra Pacific, arguing that its logging practice harms salmon habitat.
David Kelley of PG&E examines the salmon restoration project on Battle Creek in Shasta County. The work involves removing five dams owned by PG&E and modifying four others so steelhead and winter- and spring-run salmon can pass.
The highway through Lassen Volcanic National Park is inching open as crews continue to clear away snow as deep as 25 feet.
Construction of a new museum at Donner Memorial State Park in Truckee is shocking many residents and visitors despite years of warnings that the project would disturb the site.
The Pioneer Monument statue at Donner Memorial State Park peers over stumps of recently cut trees and through a fence enclosing the construction site for the new park museum.
In the eyes of the state of California, the Butte County women and 18,000 other same-sex couples who married during a brief window of opportunity in 2008 are entitled to all the joint benefits that go with their status.
Lynda, left, and Brenda Ziviello-Howell, in their Magalia backyard, were wed in 2008 before Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban, took effect. They are among the first gay couples to challenge bankruptcy laws. The ultimate target is the Defense of Marriage Act.
Lynda, left, and Brenda Ziviello-Howell are legal guardians to Brenda’s great-niece, 3-year-old Liliana. When the married couple tried to file a joint bankruptcy case, they faced resistance from the federal agency that oversees such actions.
The Plumas National Forest is seeking volunteers Saturday to help restore the trail to Feather Falls, a spectacular waterfall that plunges 410 feet on the Fall River.
The trail to Feather Falls was damaged by winter weather and is in need of repair. Volunteers are sought to help fix the trail Saturday, beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the Feather Falls Trailhead.
Heavy flows in the Feather River are forcing a two-day closure of Caribou Road to allow Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to repair a fish barrier.
The Valencia-Fragas household is a mix of cultures and languages embodied in 3-year-old Adan Fragas.
Adan Fragas, 3, practices writing at his home in Culver City while his mother, Edith Valencia, and father, Keawepo’o Fragas, watch. Adan speaks both English and Spanish, and his mother wants him to attend St. Joan of Arc Dual Language Academy, one of the first dual language schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
The Lake Tahoe community is invited to an open house from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday to meet the new supervisors of the U.S. Forest Service’s Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit.
Sacramento Democratic Assemblymen Roger Dickinson and Richard Pan would be forced to run against each other for re-election under separate proposals for new legislative districts by two key minority groups, according to an analysis by Redistricting Partners, a political research firm.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday announced the layoff of more than 130 employees at the state prison system’s headquarters.
Almost 9,000 retirees in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System receive at least $100,000 in annual benefits, more than quadruple the number getting that much during 2005, according to a Bee review of CalPERS data.
CalPERS headquarters in downtown Sacramento.
An early-morning fire that burned down a Stockton mosque last month was the work of an arsonist, fire investigators said Wednesday.
As newly planted crops begin to emerge from the soil, a sense of renewed optimism is spreading across the central San Joaquin Valley.
The search for a missing 2-year-old Humboldt County girl came to a sad end Saturday, when authorities found the toddler’s body in the Trinity River.
