Katherine Breed, a Bay Area endurance swimmer, is preparing for what she says has never been done before: swimming the entire length of California's coastline, an expedition that she estimates to be about 900 miles.
The sights and sounds of summer fun are usually familiar for this time of year at CaliBunga Waterpark, a San Jose hotspot for staying cool -- but not this summer. The city announced Thursday that the decades-old waterpark is closing to make way for a new vision at Lake Cunningham Regional Park.
A five-year-old boy nearly drowned at a hotel pool, but in a stroke of fate, two off-duty firefighters were there and immediately got to work.
Eleven people were trapped in a cave along the Santa Cruz coastline near Davenport on Thursday evening after rising tides cut off their exit, according to CAL FIRE and other responding agencies.
Meet Avery Fisher, a 16-year-old high school student from Tiburon, who is using her passion for scuba diving to raise awareness and money to protect the delicate ecosystems of the San Francisco Bay.