Allison Prang formerly covered breaking news for The Wall Street Journal in New York. Before joining the Journal, she was a reporter for American Banker, where she wrote about community banks. She was ...

Anda Chu is a Bay Area News Group photojournalist for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. He grew up in the Bay Area and graduated from San Francisco Sate University with a BA in journalism. He has ...

To many, atmospheric rivers are a West Coast phenomenon. But they’re also responsible for the devastating flooding that hit ...

After several wet winters soaked California, the state’s largest reservoir is nearly overflowing for the third year in a row.

A commercial fisherman nabbed a large male Chinese mitten crab in the lower Columbia River late last month, putting ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) says a fisherman along the lower Columbia River, in the border region of ...

According to Oregon Live, this is the first confirmed sighting of a Chinese mitten crab in the Pacific Northwest. A single ...

A commercial fisherman caught what officials identified as a Chinese mitten crab last week in the Lower Columbia River, just ...

To compensate, he has shifted much of his business from Bodega Bay to San Francisco Bay, where he now rents a second ... were ...

All of California was swept up in Humphrey fever when the wayward humpback whale found himself stuck twice in the Bay Area.

Lower Columbia River near Tongue Point in Oregon. This sits just south of the Washington border. What does a Chinese mitten ...

Staffing at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory was already reduced by more than one-third in 2025.