This is a vast region was once a safe haven for salmon, nature’s perfect rest stop. Its marshlands offered endless places to ...

The 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California will be closed for an unprecedented third year running, and sportfishing will be restricted to only a few days due to dwindling numbers of fish, ...

A federal and state proposal for operating California’s massive systems would send water south. That could harm more salmon and other endangered fish.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The 2025 commercial salmon fishing season in California will be closed for an unprecedented third year running, and sportfishing will be restricted to only a few days due to ...

Capt. William Smith, left, and Second Capt. Lee Gualtieri stand on their boat, Riptide, on March 10 in Half Moon Bay. (Photo by Godofredo A. Vásquez/Associated Press) William Smith has long fished the ...

The Newsom administration is refining a contentious set of proposed rules, years in the making, that would reshape how farms and cities draw water from the Central Valley’s Delta and its rivers.

Fishing report compiled by California Outdoors Hall of Fame member Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, who guides in the greater Fresno area and holds the striper record at Millerton Lake. Delta ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in an ongoing series by Sacramento Bee opinion writer Tom Philp examining the precipitous decline of California’s wild salmon and what can be done to head off ...

William Smith has long fished the California coast for salmon, taking avid anglers out on his boat in hopes they’ll get to wrestle with and reel in the prized catch. But not anymore. Smith, known as ...