2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (261+ words) activenorcal.com 1533:063017:86F:0000::2E[135:0095]G[008:0x0006] President Trump's September 4 executive order asking federal officials to consider stripping Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves landed hard in Northern California, where 13 packs now roam and ranchers in Siskiyou, Sierra, and Plumas counties have spent…...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago   (204+ words) Fire crews from across California were rolling into the North State before dawn Saturday, staged in seven counties under a Red Flag Warning that the National Weather Service has now extended to 5 p.m. Monday. Cal OES announced that at Governor Newsom’s…...

2+ hour, 7+ min ago   (249+ words) There is a week every fall when the North Grove at Calaveras Big Trees stops being a sequoia park and becomes a color show, and the people who live nearby guard that week carefully. The Highway 4 park near Arnold is…...

2+ hour, 43+ min ago   (272+ words) The Lucas Fire has nearly quadrupled since Friday morning, pushing past 4,000 acres in the hills above Upper Lake and prompting the Lake County sheriff to declare a local emergency. Cal Fire put the blaze at 4,008 acres and 15 percent contained late…...

2+ hour, 33+ min ago   (267+ words) A dog went over the side of a boat near Bailey Cove on Shasta Lake Friday morning, and the man who jumped in after it never came back up. The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office identified him as Geordan White, 60, of…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago   (205+ words) California’s Biggest Volunteer Day Hits the Mendocino Coast Next Saturday Active NorCal MendoParks and California State Parks are again hosting the coast's share of California Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday, Sept 19, from 9 a.m It is the 42nd year of the…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (198+ words) The sea lion rolling in the surf at Seacliff State Beach was not playing. It was seizing. KYMA carried an NBC report from Aptos this week on a sharp rise in sick and dying sea lions along the Santa Cruz…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (245+ words) Some of the best salmon habitat in California isn’t a wild river at all. It’s a rice field outside Sacramento in the dead of winter. Research from the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences has shown that when Central Valley…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (232+ words) Tahoe gets the postcards, but a lake fed by Yosemite snowmelt is quietly stealing some of its thunder. Travel outlet Islands is telling boaters to skip the crowds at Tahoe and point their trailers toward Lake McClure instead, calling the…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (193+ words) Labor Day boaters may have noticed a little more shoreline than last year, but NorCal’s water picture is still miles from crisis territory. New California Department of Water Resources data from September 6 shows Shasta Lake holding 2.51 million acre-feet, about 55 percent…...