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Hansen founded his eponymous surf shop in 1961, where he became known for his surfboard shaping skills. He died over the weekend, a company memorial said. A paddle-out will be scheduled at a later date.
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The release is part of a decades-long effort to restore and sustain California’s fisheries.
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Nearly every California county saw a drop in children's eye exams over the past decade, a new report finds. One boy's teachers thought he was disruptive. He just couldn't see the board.
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A federal judge rules that the Border Patrol again broke the rules in California immigration sweeps, saying agents acted “without considering or complying with law Congress enacted.”
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Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco need to split the vote nearly evenly to lock Democrats out of the race. Their strategy? Attack each other relentlessly.
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UC San Diego and UC Davis have received a $15.85 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund an extensive study on how the brain ages among Hispanic and Latino communities.
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Though precipitation to date has been near average, much of it fell as rain rather than snow. Then March’s record-breaking heat melted most of the snow that remains. The state’s major reservoirs are nevertheless brimming above historic averages and are flirting with capacity, and a smattering of snow, rain and thunderstorms are dousing last month’s heat wave.
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SF Gate, a San Francisco-based news outlet, notes that Santana's Mexican Grill claims to be the "home" of the California burrito. San Diego Magazine gives at least partial credit to the Lolita's chain.
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Democrats have run California for years. But in a nationally critical election, the party is being confronted by the limits of its own power: the race for governor is out of control.
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The county says the board committees, each made up of two elected supervisors, aren’t subject to the state’s open meeting law. Others argue they should operate more transparently.
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