On April 29, 2008, my first Ocean Backyard column appeared in the Sunday Sentinel. This one is No. 442, and I need to admit ...

I work from home these days, and appreciate the quiet, in part because solitude makes chance encounters – at hardware and grocery stores or downtown – with people I haven’t seen in a while that ...

A Redwood City cyclist is on the verge of completing a 5-year project to ride every bit of legally bikeable road and trail in San Mateo County — amounting to more than 2,800 miles across 33 cities and ...

A gathering at the county courthouse drew an estimated 4,000 people in Santa Cruz, while another 300 converged on Watsonville ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time parents. The zoo said it was “overjoyed” over the arrival of the four hatchlings ...

Whether you prefer the buzzy affluence of Jackson Hole, rodeo towns or mountain towns, Wyoming should be on any nature ...

The Philadelphia Zoo’s Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises Mommy and Abrazzo, both estimated to be 100 years old, are the ...

California man Gabriel Anthony Autio Ramirez faces charges for making a threatening phone call to an organic farming watchdog ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time ...

Scenes from Saturday's "Hand Off" rally in Santa Cruz protesting the actions of President Donald Trump's second ...

The Trump administration’s slash-and-burn approach to federal programs has delivered a considerable hit to the nation’s environment, but experts say its plans to repeal hard-won protections for ...