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...

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...

Beginning in 2015, all whole eggs sold in the state of California -- even those shipped in from other states -- must come from chickens that are housed in a way that complies with the requirements set out in Proposition......

Regulators closed four California banks late Friday, bringing the year-to-date failure count to 118 nationwide and 10 in the Golden State. The four California institutions and the banks taking over their branches, deposits and most of their loans (the...

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has drawn up legislation that would for the next two years loosen Endangered Species Act restrictions on pumping water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to increase irrigation deliveries to San Joaquin Valley...

They waited, the way people wait on a plane. You can picture them spreading out inside this mostly empty flight to San Francisco, the smokestacks and cranes of the Newark skyline looming outside their windows. You can hear them working their cell...