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When the Well Runs Dry
If you drive through Mesa Verda in the desert of southeastern California, you get the sense that not much has...
Airport Accused of Suppressing Runway Studies
Open-government advocates and environmentalists say the San Francisco International Airport is illegally blocking access to draft studies on the environmental...
County May Pay $20 Million for Timberland
The Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC), owned by the Fisher family that owns the Gap clothing chain, has obtained little-known development...
Plan to Bag Gualala, Albion Rivers Could Exploit Free Trade Laws
Luxembourg-based World Water SA has become the first multinational to seek water rights to northern California rivers, setting up a...
Chevron Slammed for Plans to Store Explosive Gas
Chevron Richmond Refinery has illegally avoided environmental review of its plans to build storage tanks for highly explosive liquid petroleum...
Muwekma Recognition
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is expected to decide by early August whether to formally recognize the East Bay’s...
Precautionary Tale
Under a draft ordinance set to go before its Board of Supervisors this fall, San Francisco may become the first...
Post-Fire Logging
A Federal District Court judge has sided with activists seeking to block post-fire salvage logging in Humboldt County’s Six Rivers...
The Way to Daylight
For more than 50 years, Poinsett Park was a 250-foot-long triangle of grass, squeezed on a hillside between Rosalind and...
The Deep Next Door
The giant gelatinous predator moves silently through cold, dark waters, propelled by a pair of expanding and contracting swimming bells....
Distant Relatives
In the summer of 1872 — the year Grant defeated Greeley for a second term and the Credit Mobilier scandal...
