This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. With salmon fishing barred off the California coast for two years, ...

Smitty," now spends time on the seas with aspiring whale watchers, or scattering the ashes of the deceased — whatever it takes to stay afloat since salmon fishing was barred in California two years ...

The most recent risk assessment, outlined in maps published by the California Geological Survey, illustrate the devastation ...

William Smith has long fished the California coast for salmon, taking avid anglers out on his boat in hopes they'll get to ...

Facing persecution in their native country for their Christian faith, Edith and her family found asylum in the United States in 2009. As refugees, they received support throughout the process from ...

Jamie O’Neill, owner of Seattle-based Dock Street Brokers, said many of California’s commercial salmon fishermen are getting out of the business, selling their permits or simply letting them expire.

The dining world’s prestigious Michelin Guide on Wednesday named 15 restaurants in the Bay Area, Central Coast and Southern California as “new discoveries” — a prelude to the release later ...

Image Northern right whale dolphins leaping off the waters of Monterey Bay in California. Mr. Brodsky estimated that there were more than 2,000 dolphins in a “superpod” last Friday.Credit ...

A pod of endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales were spotted off the coast of Monterey Bay, California. The whales rely on Chinook salmon as their primary food source, but salmon populations ...

MONTEREY BAY, Calif. – A group of Southern Resident killer whales were spotted in Monterey Bay, California, on Tuesday in a rare spectacle of the endangered creatures. About 25 of the whales were seen ...

A California boat captain has captured rare video of a super pod of more than 2,000 dolphins breaching off the coast of Monterey Bay, including the more elusive northern right whale dolphin.