San Rafael (Marin, California)

“Even though they're not the majestic megafauna like whales that draw so much attention from people, those smaller fish are a main food source for larger marine mammals and recreationally and commercially important fish species,” said Ashley...

Contracts to renovate a portable classroom at Sharpsburg Elementary, for paper products for school cafeterias, and to provide technical support for the computers that handle the school system’s payroll were approved May 17 by the Washington County...

Several bills affecting animals have made their way through the California Legislature in recent months and are poised to become law if they are signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Here's a roundup of recent legislative efforts to help animals in......

For weeks, Meg Whitman, California's Republican gubernatorial candidate, has said that if elected she would suspend the state's 2006 global warming law for a year. But in Tuesday's debate with Democratic candidate Jerry Brown, at Dominican University in...

In the race for governor, according to ABC7, Democratic candidate Jerry Brown leads by seven points. Their news poll conducted by SurveyUSA revealed that Brown holds 47% of voter support, while Meg Whitman has 40%. Five percent of voters still......

Environmental justice, a movement to focus attention on pollution in low-income communities, is a burning cause for Lisa Jackson, the first African American to head the U.S. Environmental Protection agency. Over the last several months, Jackson has toured...

Universal eyes Green Day musical 'American Idiot'...

Genetically modified fish sold in California would be labeled as such under a bill approved by the California Assembly Health Committee this week. Assemblyman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) authored AB 88 in response to the U.S. Food and Drug...

California’s exporters showed another impressive year-over-year gain in performance in November, shipping $12.49 billion in goods for sale to customers overseas. That represented an increase of more than 14% compared with the $10.95 billion sent to...

Gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown met for their third and final debate Tuesday evening, a contentious exchange that touched on tabloid-esque controversies that have dominated the campaign recently, as well as on issues of how each would...

Dick Turpin, a longtime real estate editor of The Times and part of the team that won the paper a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 1965 Watts riots, has died. He was 91. Turpin died in his sleep Friday at the Northridge Care Center in Reseda,...

Vance Bourjaily, a novelist and professor of writing who was part of the post- World War II generation of writers whose wartime experiences influenced their early work, has died. He was 87. Bourjaily, who was discovered by legendary editor Max Perkins,...