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For the past three weeks, construction crews working 24 hours a day have been stacking boulders across a river in eastern Contra Costa County, building what may be California's biggest defense yet against the drought: a nearly 800-foot-long rock wall. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The new and much-anticipated national monument in Santa Cruz County, Cotoni-Coast Dairies, will open to the public as soon as next summer, according to a plan released Wednesday by the federal Bureau of Land Management. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The new and much-anticipated national monument in Santa Cruz County, Cotoni-Coast Dairies, will open to the public as soon as next summer, according to a plan released Wednesday by the federal Bureau of Land Management. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Thousands of farms and water agencies that rely on flows from California's vast delta watershed, including some in the Bay Area, are being told to stop drawing water from its rivers and creeks because there's not enough to go around. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At least one-tenth of the planet's giant sequoia trees are believed to have been wiped out by a single wildfire last year, and the iconic species may never fully recover. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Several communities and hundreds of vineyards in California's Wine Country are being cut off from their water supply because there's not enough water to go around. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for unprecedented levels of spending on fire prevention this year, money likely to be supplemented with additional federal dollars, with the hope of averting what many say is a terrible wildfire season in the making. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the latest chapter of California's unfolding drought, state officials are planning to build a giant rock wall across a river in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to save the vital freshwater estuary from San Francisco Bay's saltwater. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the Bay Area, most people get their water from big utilities that have lots of water, even during a drought. Your tap is not at risk of running dry. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Big Basin Redwoods State Park, ravaged by flames during last year's devastating wildfire season, will get a windfall of cash to rebuild, under a state budget proposal unveiled by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The city of San Francisco is reviving a long-simmering feud with the state over water, filing a lawsuit Friday that charges state regulators with trying to take away the city's coveted Sierra Nevada water supplies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A giant sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park that caught fire last summer during a wildfire was recently found to be smoldering nine months later. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., announced Monday that he is introducing legislation to increase protection of more than 1 million acres of public lands in California, mirroring part of a wilderness bill approved by the House earlier this year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

DAVENPORT, Santa Cruz County - Deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains, hidden by dense patches of conifer and far from any paved road, a century-old, abandoned dam whose purpose remains lost to history is quietly choking a small, yet important waterway. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Millions of young salmon raised at fish hatcheries in the Central Valley will be trucked to San Francisco Bay and other coastal sites for release, because the rivers they'd normally travel to get to the ocean are drying up, state and federal officials said Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it is planning to reinstate California's authority to regulate vehicle emissions, a move that, combined with actions taken last week by the Transportation Department, will return to the state a powerful tool to fight climate pollution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A controversial plan to continue cattle ranching while capping elk numbers in Point Reyes National Seashore passed a key hurdle Thursday night when the California Coastal Commission signed off on the arrangement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The feud over vehicle emissions between California and the federal government that started during the Trump administration appears to be coming to an end. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Day-use passes to visit Yosemite National Park this summer become available online Wednesday. It's part of the park's new policy of requiring advance reservations for admission, an effort to ration attendance during the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Marin Municipal Water District on Tuesday became the first major water agency in the Bay Area to impose restrictions on customers following two extraordinarily dry water years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As Point Reyes National Seashore finalizes a plan to continue cattle ranching in the park, opponents are waging a last-ditch effort to rein in the tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As drought conditions worsen across Northern California, the Marin Municipal Water District is about to become the Bay Area's first major water agency to make the leap to mandatory water restrictions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Yosemite National Park will require visitors to make advance reservations to enter the park for a second straight summer, administrators said Thursday, a bid to keep a lid on crowds during the ongoing pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California's wet season is coming to a close without a much-sought "March miracle" storm, setting the stage for a painful escalation of drought in the coming months. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

State and federal water officials have delivered their most dire warning yet of California's deepening drought, announcing that water supply shortages are imminent and calling for quick conservation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A rare gray wolf has been quietly traversing farmland in Fresno County, marking new territory for the threatened canines and chronicling one of the species' farthest trips south in a century. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The California Attorney General's Office joined two lawsuits against San Diego County on Wednesday, alleging leaders there are moving forward with a pair of giant housing projects that will pose extraordinary fire danger to residents. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A small oil boom may be dawning in the flatlands outside Bakersfield, where many are hoping for a petroleum-led economic bump for the San Joaquin Valley, but where others see California losing its will to break away from fossil fuels. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MIDDLETOWN, Lake County - Tucked between Wine Country and Clear Lake, the unsung Guenoc Valley is in some ways a prime spot to build a home. Fresh air. Fragrant stands of oak and pine. Views of rolling hills in every direction. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A disappointingly dry February is fanning fears of another severe drought in California, and cities and farms are bracing for problems. In many places, including parts of the Bay Area, water users are already being asked to cut back. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

More than 1 million acres of public land in California and other Western states will be preserved as undeveloped wilderness if long-stalled legislation that's back in play under the Biden administration can make it through Congress. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

State water surveyors who trekked into the Sierra Nevada on Wednesday found exactly what they expected: little snow and long odds of anything but a dismally dry year ahead. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The storm that pounded California this week, unleashing mudslides on the coast and blanketing the Sierra with several feet of snow, chipped away at the state's slowly emerging drought. But California's water woes still loom. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco Bay is dwarfed by the Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound and other treasured estuaries when it comes to federal funding, and California lawmakers want that changed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

President Biden, acting quickly to differentiate his climate agenda from his predecessor's, rolled out a slate of environmental directives Wednesday, including a far-reaching suspension of new oil and gas development on federal land and waters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Unpaid water bills are piling up across California as the pandemic continues to rage, leaving water agencies out hundreds of millions of dollars and nearly 1 in 8 families with rising debt - and worse, a possible water shut-off. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Unpaid water bills are piling up across California as the pandemic continues to rage, leaving water agencies out hundreds of millions of dollars and nearly 1 in 8 families with rising debt - and worse, a possible water shut-off. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Baltimore may be a continent away from San Francisco, but the coastal cities have at least one thing in common: rising seas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

High, dangerous surf is expected at beaches in the Bay Area on Saturday, followed by strong winds that could bring gusts in excess of 60 mph across Northern California from Sunday through Tuesday, forecasters say. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The year 2020 was either tied for the hottest on record or second hottest - an unwelcome distinction either way. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The year 2020 was either tied for the hottest on record or second hottest - an unwelcome distinction whichever you choose to go with. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Increasingly strong storms are responsible for more than a third of the nation's flood costs, swelling the tab by billions of dollars a year as climate change continues to fuel more extreme weather, according to new research at Stanford University. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A troubling die-off of gray whales along the Pacific Coast two years ago appears to have continued through 2020, raising concerns that the celebrated rebound of the ocean giants might not be a sure thing. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Following a record wildfire season in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to invest an additional $1 billion to make the state's forests and communities more resilient to future blazes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]