San Francisco Animal Care and Control officers are trying to find a person accused of lighting a wild raccoon on fire and burning it badly. 

New poll also shows better numbers for Board of Supervisors and greater optimism about the city’s trajectory

Older Californians are taking advantage of recent technology to keep up their exercise — and love of hillside sightseeing.

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it is eliminating its research and development arm and reducing agency staff by thousands of employees.

The Golden Gate Bridge will get a $1.8 billion end-to-end overhaul over the next 10 years, with lane closures for the duration.

Wastewater from Alcatraz currently gets sent off the island by boat to San Francisco. If Trump turns it into a prison, the city could try to block shipments.

The Trump administration appears to be gearing up to announce it will reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison, an idea it has teased for months.

A Roseville woman and her 9-year-old got badly lost in the forest on the way to a Cub Scouts meetup. A trail of paper notes helped guide rescuers.

While the rest of the country sweats it out, California’s summer is staying surprisingly cool.

Election clerks in both parties, who have been subject to harassment and lawsuits over Trump’s 2020 false election claims, worry about efforts to examine their voting machines.

Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing...

Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.

The epic rain and snow from a few winters ago appears to have changed Mono Lake’s chemistry, with big impacts for wildlife.

Seven years after the Salesforce Tower usurped the Transamerica Pyramid as San Francisco’s highest skyscraper, a developer is planning a building that would become the tallest in California.

New data shows just how much Californians in every ZIP code are paying to be insured by the FAIR Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort.

New data shows just how much Californians in every ZIP code are paying to be insured by the FAIR Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort.

Fewer rangers to educate visitors means escalating wildlife interactions.