The Latest Breaking News from the Pacific Coast

California least terns faced extinction due to human activity and predators. Wildlife authorities implemented seasonal beach closures to protect nesting sites. Scientific research revealed birds' site fidelity and adaptability to new locations. Conservation efforts have successfully expanded tern populations along the Pacific coast. People and wildlife now coexist, with temporary…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says a proposed pipeline to carry Alberta oil to the Pacific Coast would preserve a longstanding ban on oil tankers off northern British Columbia, as his government addresses environmental concerns and while seeking to ease separatist tensions in oil-rich Alberta

In 2013, a mysterious epidemic swept across the Pacific Coast of North America, rapidly turning billions of sea stars from Mexico to Alaska into goo.

Gray whales are resilient. But, Arctic sea ice loss is threatening their feeding grounds

Firefighters are battling to control a series of major fires in the Los Angeles area that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their homes

If cycle touring teaches anything, it is that life rarely goes according to plan, as Isobel Duxfield found out when riding what soon become a pedal-propelled sail around the Pacific Coast

The X Games are coming home to Southern California for an eight-day tour of the Pacific coast

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 6.8 magnitude earthquake centered just off the Pacific Coast, about 50 miles south of Guayaquil, Ecuador's second-largest city.