Bodega Bay News

Travel out the scenic Bodega Highway and find a tiny gem in the valley at the edge of the Sonoma Coast: the quaint hamlet of Bodega Bay.

The Running Fence, a four-year project by the husband and wife team of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, spanned 24.5 miles of the California landscape in the 1970s.

Older Boy Scouts of troops 168 and 266 in Concord joined in a bike trip last summer across California.

The Marin County Office of Education reports that schools are closed today in the Shoreline Unified School District and the Bolinas-Stinson Union School District because of flooding and power outages.

Published: Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 4:03 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 4:03 a.m. A longtime Bodega Marine Laboratory professor and researcher has taken over as director of the facility, which during the past decade has become one of the top schools for study of the ocean and coastal environment and ecology.

NOAA joined federal, state, and local groups on Wednesday in Alviso, Calif., on the shores of San Francisco Bay to view the breaching of an earthen levee at a South Bay salt pond, an important step in the $7.6 million Recovery Act project to restore 2,000 acres of wetlands.

You know that huge conglomeration of high voltage power lines on Second St. near Lindaro in San Rafael? Yes, the one that looks like it could fry you if you walked within ten feet of it? If you think that's bad, the site was originally intended to support a nuclear power plant.

Published: Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 11:03 p.m. This is not how Marilyn Collins thought 2010 would look.

Like a horror show picture, giant squid seem to be invading the coast. From Fort Bragg to Monterey, giant Humboldt squid have shown up in massive numbers.

Published: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 6:04 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 6:04 p.m. It's New Year's Eve and you're just now getting around to making plans.

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Published: Friday, December 18, 2009 at 4:05 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, December 18, 2009 at 4:05 a.m. Dungeness crab season is the perfect excuse to make an afternoon escape to Bodega Bay's windswept dunes, beaches and chowder shacks.

Published: Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:52 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:52 a.m. A series of power outages darkened a variety of Sonoma County areas Saturday and Sunday as the latest storm swept through the region.

A chilly, crisp wind whipped through the masts of the fishing boats in Bodega Bay Harbor.

Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 3:40 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 3:40 p.m. After a poor start off Bodega Bay, commercial fishermen are hauling in good catches of Dungeness crab off Eureka and Crescent City.

The couple, Nikolaos Afentakis, 83, and Eudora Afentakis, 78, of Pittsburg were found Thursday afternoon amid the wreckage of their 20-foot boat near Salmon Creek north of Bodega Bay, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department.

The Sonoma County coroner's office today released the identities of the elderly husband and wife who died Thursday after their boat capsized in the waters near Bodega Bay.

The Sonoma County coroner has identified an elderly couple whose bodies were recovered near Bodega Bay after they failed to return from a Thanksgiving Day crabbing trip.

A man's body was discovered in the waters off Bodega Bay this afternoon and authorities are searching for a possible second person in the waters, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.