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Zoe Rosenberg testifies she ‘rescued’ chickens, not committed crimes, in Petaluma Poultry case

In her own defense, Zoe Rosenberg described rescuing four chickens from Petaluma Poultry and rejected prosecutors’ claims that she helped plan a series of break-ins at the facility.

Animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg pauses to talk to reporters outside the Sonoma County Superior Courthouse before her preliminary hearing in Santa Rosa, Friday, May 3, 2024. Rosenberg is charged with felony conspiracy and three misdemeanors related to a 2023 incursion by activists at a Petaluma Poultry processing facility. (Chad Surmick / The Press Democrat)

A sea otter pops vertically out of the water behind a surfer at Steamer Lane on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in Santa Cruz, Calif. (Shmuel Thaler/Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Puckish sea otters continue surf board-stealing ways at Santa Cruz beach

A group of California condors perch on a rock at the Ventana Wildlife Society's condor sanctuary in Big Sur, Calif., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

For a century, they were gone. But California condors are making a comeback in these parts of the Bay Area

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California Drought

Eryn Murphy carries native plants Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, in Littleton, Colo. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

Move over, green lawns. Drier, warmer climate boosts interest in low-water landscaping

Ener xeriscaping — landscaping aimed at vastly reducing the need for irrigation, including by using native or drought-tolerant plants.

Wildfires

New California laws aim to ease ongoing home insurance crisis

The state approved a package of laws this month to tackle its home insurance crisis.

Health

Daylight saving time ends soon.
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When does daylight saving time end this year? Turn the clocks back soon

Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. Nov. 2, and any clocks not connected to the internet or satellites will need to be turned back one hour.

Parks

Rekha Nayar, Vallejo’s Finance Director, left the city in Oct. 2025 after nine years to work at the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District. (Photo credit: City of Vallejo.)

Vallejo’s finance director leaves for Hayward park district

Rekha Nayar’s departure from the position of Finance Director is part of what appears to...

Wildlife

A wild black bear peers into a habitat at Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka, Calif., Oct. 17, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Sequoia Park Zoo)

California zookeeper’s double surprise: There’s a bear outside the pen, and it’s not one of ours

A wild bear was "interacting" with the resident bears across the fence.

Astronomy

FILE – Dr. George Smoot, professor of Physics at the University of California Berkeley, gestures during a media conference Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006, in Berkeley, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

George Smoot dies at 80; Nobel laureate researched the universe’s origins at UC Berkeley

He was a co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for finding the background...

Space

Spectators relax on a dry lake bed in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and wait for the Perseid meteor shower to unfold in 2013.. (Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Orionid meteor shower will soon be visible over LA. When and where to watch

The Orionid shower is made up of particles from Halley’s Comet burning in the atmosphere...

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