SF News Mysterious Surge in Bay Area Sea Lion Pup Deaths Stumps Researchers Scientists are trying to figure out what's behind a dramatic rise in dead, stillborn, and malnourished sea lion pups, in the Bay Area and along the West Coast.
SF News From 'Beach Bummers' to 'Poo-cifica,' California Coast Struggles with High Levels of Sewage After Winter Storms A new report shows how the winter's storms caused sewage overflows that have polluted the state's beaches, with five of its dirtiest beaches located in San Mateo County.
SF News Some Bay Area Beaches Shut Down For Labor Day Weekend; All SF Beaches To Remain Open With Labor Day weekend (and an imminent heat wave) upon us, denizens of the Bay Area are ready to flood local beaches in droves — but many, however, have closed to thwart COVID-19 infections.
SF News All Beach Parking Lots In SF Are Closed For July 4th Weekend If you have an urge to see the ocean this weekend and are planning to do so in a socially distanced manner, you had better walk or take a bike, because none of the beach parking lots in San Francisco will be open.
SF News Update: Gov. Newsom Orders Orange County Beaches Closed, Not Whole State's May is one of the finest times of year in California, but Governor Gavin Newsom is scolding Southern California in particular for overcrowding its beaches — and now he says he will order Orange County to "hard close" all its beaches.
SF News Martins Beach Finally Completely Open To The Public While CA Senate Looks To Protect That Access The long, long legal battle over Martins Beach might finally be over, and the state of California is looking to make sure it doesn't come up ever again. Signs and gates barring entrance
SF News SF Beaches Trashed Over Extra-Hot Weekend For once, Dolores Park was not the site of a major, deplorable mess over the holiday weekend, and that's largely because it was too damn hot to be in the park, and most
SF News Party On The Beach! Billionaire Ordered To Open Martins Beach To The Public Gazillionaire Vinod Khosla just can't catch a break. We've covered this ongoing saga before, but let's catch you up: In 2008, the Sun Microsystems co-founder bought Martins Beach and the surrounding land for
SF News Shark Spotted Right Next To Surfers At Pacifica Beach Attacking Seal Video taken by surfers at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica on Sunday morning shows a shark, very close to shore, making breakfast of a seal. KRON 4 picked up the news, and got
SF News Today Is The Summer Solstice, And It's Going To Be A Warm One Bringing a bit of cheer to our Monday morning is the fact that today is the summer solstice — the longest day of the year and the first official day of summer. What's more,
Arts & Entertainment The 15 Best Beaches In The Bay Area, Nude And Otherwise This weekend, at least in some parts of the Bay Area, is going to be a scorcher and hopefully it won't be the last of the season, because we all know how summer
SF News New Ocean Beach Bonfire Rules Take Effect New rules governing bonfires on Ocean Beach have officially gone into effect, and, having abandoned a proposed $35 permit after the idea was roundly criticized, the changes should mostly be welcomed by fans
SF News SFFD Rescues Adorable Dog From Fort Funston Cliff With Fort Funston in the news recently as one of the many parks to possibly restrict dogs under proposed new National Park Service rules, it is important to remember that the prime dog-walking
SF News Silicon Valley Billionaire Wants $30 Million For His Beach Access, National Media Shames Him The saga of Sun Microsystems founder and local billionaire Vinod Khosla and his beachfront property south of Half Moon Bay came up in the news again in the past week after Khosla laid
SF News Today Is Going To Be A Scorcher, Good Thing You're Not At Work So it's President's Day, and you have the day off of work. Well, lucky you, as San Francisco is set to experience near-record highs today. Just how hothothot is it expected to get?
SF News 200 Gallons Of Fireworks Refuse Washes Up On Beach Following Super Bowl Display National Park officials are pointing fingers after an influx of trash washed ashore at Aquatic Park over the weekend. The garbage, they claim the result of Saturday's Super Bowl City opening fireworks display,
Arts & Entertainment Man Named Chris Who Put Message In A Bottle Off NorCal Coast As A Boy In 1988 Possibly Found A five-year-old exploring around a beach near Fort Bragg last week came across a glass bottle with an adorable message inside, and after the boy's mother and local news stations like ABC 7
SF News In Confusing Bid To Reduce Litter, National Park Service Pulls Ocean Beach Trash Cans In a bizarrely counterintuitive move echoing San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department's efforts in Dolores Park, the National Park Service has removed a series of garbage cans along the Ocean Beach promenade with
SF News Here's A Map Of Every Shark Attack Ever In The Bay Area Yes, there has been an increase in shark sightings along the California coast of late, possibly due to the coming El Niño, as the Chron recently reported marine wildlife anomalies tend to happen,
SF News Bay Area Beaches Stricken With Riptides In Wake Of Hurricane Odile Bay Area beaches — which have never been the safest — are a little more dangerous this week, the US Coast Guard says. As the Chron reports, the tail end of Hurricane Odile, which has
SF News The 10 Dirtiest Beaches In The Bay Nine percent of California's beaches were unsafe for swimming at some point last year, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)'s nationwide report "Testing the Waters 2014." That's one percent better
SF News Stinson Beach Is Currently A Seaside Nightmare Are you afraid of the ocean? You should be. There are some terrifying things out there. Case in point: just hours after a 42-foot fin whale died on Stinson Beach, a 10-15 foot
SF News Your Morning Cry: Stranded Stinson Beach Whale Dies #PHOTO just in shows stranded fin whale that died at Stinson Beach in Marin County http://t.co/Tj8heJlUlW pic.twitter.com/CuDSupqHVV— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) August 19, 2013 Perhaps your editor's
SF News Massive Amount of Japanese Tsunami Trash Headed Our Way Nearly a year after a major earthquake and tsunami shook and doused Japan, some 25 million tons of debris that washed out to sea when the tsunami receded is headed toward the California
