A mobile sauna business on Big River ignites debate in Mendocino over ecology, access and commercialization

In Redwood National and State Parks, one of California's strangest World War II secrets still stands in silence

The Spyrock site in Mendocino County offers a rare glimpse into California's earliest artistry

A giant hammer marks the entrance to Pierson Building Center, a hardware store that embodies the do-it-yourself camaraderie that binds the region and whose namesake built thousands of nearby homes.

For years, it defied Humboldt County. Now, California's most infamous commune is cornered.

Cal Poly Humboldt biologist Silvia Pavan discovers new marsupial species in Peru's cloud forests

A forgotten arrest and an unsolved double homicide tether Mendocino County to California's darkest cult

A private club preserves Eureka's Carson Mansion, the grandest Victorian in California.

Inside a comeback bid for a century-old inn on the Mendocino Coast.

Entombed in Lake County, California, the Clear Lake Volcanic Field is one of the state's riskiest

Mendocino Coast residents are fighting to save the Albion River Bridge, the last wooden bridge on Highway 1

Humboldt Bay's struggling Bayshore Mall reveals a region caught between past and future

As PG&E dismantles the Potter Valley Project, Northern California fire chiefs sound the alarm

Along Highway 101, California's World Famous Tree House reopens, with questions about what's next. ✍️ @mattlafever.bsky.social/SFGATE

Tourists dream of gems found at Fort Bragg's Glass Beach. Locals see danger, erosion and broken ankles.

Northern California's Humboldt Crabs keep small-town baseball alive as the nation's oldest summer collegiate team

Northern California's Humboldt Crabs keep small-town baseball alive as the nation's oldest summer collegiate team

The Venice Canals have been rocked by dog illnesses and deaths this summer.

Mountain lions kill 15 alpacas in three nights of attacks on a Lake County ranch in Northern California.

Decades of curiosity surround Mount Shasta's rusting figures, which are now fading into the overgrowth

In working-class Kihei, a new kind of gathering place is reshaping the rhythm of Maui

My first ever published concert review from this week’s edition of @sfgate.com’s Fogcutter column, a round up of events and happening around the Bay Area. ‘The indie scene’s psychedelic troubadour seems to be getting his head straight.’

Crescent City — one of California’s northernmost towns and Del Norte County’s lone city — took a close-to-$1 million hit to its harbor after tsunami waves battered the North Coast earlier this week. ✍️ @mattlafever.bsky.social/SFGATE

Crescent City's harbor sustained major damage after tsunami waves battered California's North Coast

Del Norte County's Josephine Ophiolite reveals a cross section of Earth usually buried miles below

PG&E's Potter Valley plan fuels clash between Eel River restoration and Russian River crisis

As Ukiah eyes expansion, a battle over land use ignites in small-town Northern California

In California's Emerald Triangle, KMUD's rebel radio signal faces its greatest threat yet

The Great Redwood Trail hired controversial guards to move homeless people. Now it's making an abrupt about-face.

For $7 million, you can buy the Mendocino Coast view that locals were denied

A California town of just over 15,000 residents in Lassen County is lamenting the loss of its 78-year-old baseball grandstand. Read the full story below. ✍️ Matt LaFever

Frank Ernaga Field was the center of Susanville's baseball cosmos

Why did a Thai food icon choose Mendocino County? The owner said because 'it's special'

A 6,000-foot tunnel could give Crescent City the 'safe and reliable' infrastructure it needs

A professor said the practice is 'a religion of sorts'

After 28 years of serving burgers in the Mendocino County town of Willits, the owner said, 'I'm very lucky'

A spokesperson called the allegations 'unacceptable’

“I’m not blindly following Mr. Trump’s administration,” said Allan Schrange, a Trump voter and president of the Mendocino 4x4 Club. “If he does something that’s not right in there, I’m going to be the first to raise a stink about it." via @mattlafever.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a...

Lesner Noe Velasquez Cardenas has disappeared, and his case is full of contradictions

The Hendy Hermit's last known address was a 'hollowed out tree stump' in a Mendocino County redwood grove.

Despite everything, the husband and wife say their love for the outdoors remains intact. While they don’t plan to return to waterfall hiking anytime soon, Shea added: “We’re not scared. We’ll do it again.”

The real estate agent said properties like this 'don't come around very often'

Slide activity has been impacting the highway for several months

After a fatal plane crash in October 2023 claimed the lives of two Utah residents, investigators were left with a haunting question: How could a seasoned commercial pilot fly straight into a remote Northern California mountainside?

A half-billion-dollar teardown of a century-old hydroelectric facility will be funded by PG&E customers, many of whom also risk losing the year-round water supply the system delivers to 600,000 people across Northern California. via @mattlafever.bsky.social www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a...

The fall resulted in 'traumatic injuries,' according to a spokesperson

This isn’t what I had in mind when Buster bought Mendocino County's Six Point Ranch.

John Pinches, a legendary Mendocino County rancher, budget hawk, and three-term county supervisor remembered for his folksy wisdom and fierce advocacy for rural residents, has died. He was 73.

'It was magic,' guests said of their visit to the ranch near Phantom Falls

The local sheriff said, 'This is the reason we need to deal with these illegal grows.'