About two years ago, Bay Area voters passed Measure AA, a regional $12 per year parcel tax, by nearly 70 percent. You might remember it as the “Clean and Healthy Bay” ballot measure. It’s goal is to ...

It's not often that a breaking levee hits the news and is cause for celebration. But that's what's happening tomorrow when workers breach a levee in the former Cargill salt ponds in Hayward. It's a ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, taking photographs from a doorless helicopter was proving more difficult than San Francisco Bay Area photographer joSon had anticipated. Bundled in ski apparel and buckled into ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- For decades, the Cargill salt ponds in Redwood City have stretched into the San Francisco Bay like a blank slate. What's to come of them? The Cargill corporation sees the ...

With the crunch of a bulldozer Tuesday afternoon, the oldest salt flat in the Bay Area became the region's newest wetland. Amid cheers from dozens of biologists and state Fish and Game workers, a ...

The snow is melted, the air is warming and the winter of 2015-16, a mild one by any standard, is a fading memory. But one staple of our winter will remain, out of sight and out of mind: Road salt.

On Dec. 28, 1805, William Clark directed three of his men to “commence making Salt with 5 of the largest Kittles.” At a camp on the Oregon coast, they boiled ocean water. By Feb. 24, 1806, they had ...

DUXBURY (CBS) -- Duxbury was once the largest and most famous ship-building center of the world. Duxbury Beach used to be Salters Beach, where colonists harvested the mineral for survival. These days, ...