Some rescued critters are now temporarily making a home in the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s sea otter exhibit.

The new morning meditation will happen each weekday morning, via Facebook, during the Cannery Row landmark’s closure.

Enjoy a Monterey Bay Aquarium webcam that’s full of fanciful floaters as the Marchtime Worm Moon casts a lunar light.

SENDING A VALENTINE… to your favorite whale? Not going to happen because A) a Valentine’s Day card would immediately get soggy, and probably unreadable, in the ocean water and B) gray whales near the California coast are busy migrating during the winter. And should we add C)? That you couldn’t possibly pick a favorite whale, because you love them...

Widespread rain will fall through midday Wednesday mainly south of San Francisco, according to the National Weather Service.

A $4,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of whoever has been recently throwing objects at cars on U.S. Highway 101 and State Route 156 in the Prunedale area.

Projectiles have hit at least 43 cars this year.

The Bay Area’s first rainstorm of the season is expected to arrive just in time for the Thanksgiving Day holiday travel period, according to the National Weather Service.

A tree fell in the Presidio. Did anyone hear it? If not, it’s unlikely anyone would’ve also missed the sound of the massive crane hoisting the fallen 90-foot Monterey Cypress out of the park last week — two sections weighing in at over 40 thousand pounds — floating across the timbered skyline as gracefully as if they’d been Lincoln Logs.

Vice President Mike Pence arrived in California Wednesday for a two-day visit to support President Donald Trump and tour a NASA facility.

Hundreds of vehicles have been seized after an illegal sideshow in early October at a Target store parking lot in Gilroy, according to Gilroy police.

A Pacific Grove man trying to make a point was sentenced to three years of probation for voter registration fraud after submitting a voter registration form in the name of his deceased father, and then reporting it to officials to show that the system is flawed–except that the Elections Department had already discovered the fraud.

California fishermen are reporting one of the best salmon fishing seasons in years, thanks to heavy rain and snow that ended the state’s historic drought. This year’s adult salmon are the first class to benefit from record rainfall that filled California rivers and streams in early 2017.

Caltrans will begin resurfacing work on state Highway 9 from Greenvale Drive to the junction with state Highway 236 at Waterman’s Gap in Santa Cruz County from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Convenience store operator 7-Eleven, Inc. will pay a $1.525 million settlement for failing to properly train employees in the handling of hazardous material in California stores, Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine Pacioni announced Friday.

San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin introduced legislation Tuesday that aims to reduce single-use foodware and accessories in the city. The ordinance would require all food vendors in San Francisco to provide reusable foodware to dine-in customers. It would also put in place a 25-cent charge on disposable cups and food containers to encourage consumers to bring in their own cups...

The nation’s major suppliers of lead paint have agreed to pay California’s largest cities and counties $305 million to settle a nearly 20-year-old lawsuit, attorneys said Wednesday.

The price of bags provided by retail stores in San Francisco will soon go up by 15 cents after the city’s Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an ordinance raising the price Tuesday.

The City of San Francisco is on its way to ramping up its plastic bag ban. It would change the way you use plastic bags at big supermarkets, corner grocers and even farmer’s markets. And it sailed through its first reading at the Board of Supervisors. Sam Brock reports.

Residents of several Bay Area cities on Friday are planning to take part in Lights for Liberty vigils, as part of worldwide protests against detention camps at the U.S.-Mexico border.