Editor-at-Large

Sara Deseran

Comfort, nostalgia, and a phone that gets answered. Against all odds, the Duggan family is defying the restaurant industry's new normal.

The auction—the first on the West Coast—included five sites about 20 miles off Morro Bay and Humboldt County.

A year-old slide near Lucia should be cleared by summer. But how long will California invest in its famed Pacific Coast Highway?

Lawmakers are scrambling to address a surge in converter theft, but it’s a stubborn problem to solve in San Francisco and statewide. 

Even in today’s celebrity-saturated world, a first-ever presidential visit to a small Marin County town was a big deal for the people on the ground.