One chowed on Mission District garden flowers before rescuers traced the pair's engine-bay habit to the Sierra Nevada.

A fenced-off ravine with a 1872 stone dam could finally open to hikers near Skyline Wilderness Park.

Ocean in Motion invites toddlers to waddle like penguins and hop like blennies when it opens Nov. 7 on Cannery Row.

Tisa and Kumi are both carrying calves fathered by Mapenzi, the last giraffe born at the Melbourne zoo.

Beachgoers at Wrights Beach caught whales feeding just offshore as a heat advisory sent crowds to the Sonoma Coast.

A fossilized molar was found in a San Mateo County creek bed.

Costs came in 29% over budget, but Tiburon council members pushed ahead on accessible paths and new play features anyway.

Land Trust staff counted about 20 monarch caterpillars this season on milkweed replanted since the 2017 Atlas Fire scorched the ridge.

The 7-acre hilltop straddling Fairfax and San Anselmo caps a conservation campaign that began in 1981.

The half-acre East Oakland park, sealed off since a 2002 barbecue shooting, reopens Saturday with new play structures and a statue unveiling.

Crews are cutting 15 acres of towering eucalyptus that loomed over Montara backyards for decades, after residents pushed Caltrans to act.

A new acoustic study found zero spotted owl calls in Washington's Cascades north of Seattle, as invasive barred owls dominate the region.

Nearly 100 Hayes Valley neighbors shaped the new design, which adds sensory panels and a sand play area.