Coastal Restoration

The Cliff House restaurant, which first opened 157 years ago, announced Sunday that the restaurant will close permanently on Dec. 31, a victim both of the COVID-19 pandemic and, its owners say, delays by the National Park Service in reaching a long-term operating contract with the restaurant.

They're wealthy and live in posh locations. Here's how the coronavirus outbreak affects them.

Foreign tourists verbally and physically assaulted a Mexican reporter as she filmed them in a report on visitors not following Covid-19 mitigation rules.

Storms caused by atmospheric rivers cause about $1 billion damage each year, a new study shows, with more damage in California than any state studied.

Bumble Bee Foods' former Chief Executive, Chris Lischewski, was convicted Tuesday. The company conspired with Starkist Co. and Chicken of the Sea Inc. to raise canned-tuna prices.

FRESNO, Calif. -- California's working landscape and the industries associated with agriculture and natural resources contribute significantly to the state's economy, according to

Editor’s note: The deluge of popular articles and reports on marine plastic continues, but here at The Skimmer, we became curious about one important area where we weren’t seeing as much information – how marine plastic pollution is affecting ocean users and the Blue Economy. We know that marine plastic is pretty much everywhere in the ocean and can have horrific effects on

An estimated 7,000 to 14,000 lions are held in captivity and bred in South Africa. Increasingly, the animals are slaughtered for their bones and other body parts, many of which are sold in Asia for their purported — and scientifically discredited — health benefits.

This summer's relentless California wildfires have claimed at least a dozen lives and destroyed more than 1,200 homes. But along with the loss of life and property, the blazes have also taken a tremendous toll on taxpayers and the state’s huge tourism industry.

A generation of California homeowners enjoy a significant perk that keeps their property tax bill low. Part of that is thanks to Proposition 13, which has strictly limited property tax increases since 1978. But they also benefit from an additional tax break, enacted eight years later.

California and the U.S. Forest Service broke spending records fighting wildfires that blackened more than 9.5 million acres across the country in 2017, including about 1.2 million acres in California.

The next chapter in the coronavirus-related oil crisis is now inevitable: Large parts of the petroleum industry are about to start shutting down.

Overtime pay for firefighters has surged by 65% in the past decade, further evidence of the toll an unprecedented string of wildfires has taken on California.

State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Thursday announced a one-year moratorium banning insurers from not renewing policies for homeowners in wildfire-ravaged areas of the state.

Secret meetings, whispered threats -- the price-fixing case against tuna companies sounds like a mafia story.

Rita Morris has done something many people are struggling to do on the Central and South Coasts. Morris has become a homeowner. But, her home is part of a

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- U.S. commercial fishing generated more than $144 billion in sales in 2016, buoyed by growth in key species such a

At least the gas tax buys Californians some real benefits, bread-and-butter public services we use every day. The mystery surcharge? Not so much.

More than 150,000 homes and businesses could face frequent high-tide flooding within 15 years. That could double by 2045, a new report says.

Several studies have found evidence that rising seas are undermining coastal property value.

A debate is emerging about who should pay for the growing number of increasingly destructive fires, now and in hotter, drier years ahead.

The August 2016 collapse of Hanjin Line was a wake-up call for the entire ocean transportation supply chain. More than $14…