1+ hour, 48+ min ago   (254+ words) The fate of California’s most endangered salmon may come down to just 15 days. New research reveals that Sacramento River winter-run Chinook eggs live or die based on water temperatures during the first two weeks after fertilization, a discovery that could…...

2+ hour, 58+ min ago   (256+ words) For decades, drivers on Highway 101 in Del Norte County have white-knuckled their way across Last Chance Grade, a crumbling stretch of coastal cliff south of Crescent City with a habit of sliding toward the Pacific. Now the permanent fix is…...

3+ hour, 2+ min ago   (196+ words) Active NorCal A stained-glass love letter to Yosemite, nearly 40 years in the making, has found its forever home UC Merced has permanently acquired the Four Seasons of Yosemite murals, four monumental glass artworks that have anchored the third floor of…...

3+ hour, 18+ min ago   (242+ words) California’s fast-growing wolf population just became the center of a national fight. A coalition of industry groups and nonprofits has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to strip gray wolves of their federal Endangered Species Act protections entirely. The…...

3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (180+ words) The most controversial weedkiller in America is being sprayed across California’s forests in record amounts, and much of it is landing in Northern California timber country. A yearlong investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting, aired by PBS News, found…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (150+ words) Some of Northern California’s wildest backcountry could soon be open to chainsaws and bulldozers. The U.S. Forest Service formally proposed scrapping the Roadless Rule this week, a 2001 regulation that has kept road building and commercial logging out of nearly 45 million…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (247+ words) Active NorCal About half the wildfires that start in California are now found by a machine before a single person picks up a phone That statistic comes from Cal Fire's own control rooms, where a network of more than 1,200 artificial…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (258+ words) Whiskeytown’s tech upgrade just came into sharper focus. The recreation area is putting its new $405,000 grant toward digital rangers, automated sensors, and possibly the end of the fee envelope as we know it. The funding come from the National Park…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (229+ words) The last time most of NorCal saw Ryder Williams, he was disappearing under crashing waves at Seabright State Beach with an iron grip on a drowning boy. On Monday, the 16-year-old lifeguard was sitting in the Oval Office. President Trump…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (236+ words) Active NorCal Mountain lions have a public relations problem in Northern California Between livestock conflicts and the occasional too-close encounter, the big cats mostly make headlines for the wrong reasons New research suggests they deserve credit for something unexpected: safer…...