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Bodega del Sur Winery 2007 Calaveras County Tempranillo One oddity of wine culture in the Americas is why France has called most of the lasting shots and not Spain.

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.

Wine consultant Peter D. Kerr hosts a dinner featuring five wines from Wine Spectator's list of 2009's top 100, paired with food by Chef Avinash Kapoor, at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

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Published: Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 4:03 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 4:03 a.m. To hear Naomi Curtis tell it, she was enlisted by her former parish priest in Occidental to start a food program for needy families 24 years ago.

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.

Published: Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 4:03 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 4:03 a.m. You can't bring your dog, but you are welcome to bring a goat or a donkey.

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.

Friday, November 27, 2009 at 1:52 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO - Coast Guard officials say two bodies recovered near Bodega Bay are that of an elderly couple reported missing after they failed to return from a crabbing trip.

Dean Khloth recently received his California license in civil engineering by Stockton's Siegfried Engineering Inc., a civil and structural engineering and land-surveying firm serving Northern California.

Vira Burgerman is California's only licensed mermaid. "It makes people take me a little more seriously," she explains of being officially registered as a trademark mermaid.

Bodega Head is site of a popular hiking trail, but it runs along steep cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Don't look now, but malbec is gaining ground. Once grown extensively in Bordeaux, this often overlooked and fickle grape variety has put Argentina on the map in recent years.

A few times a year a horde of felons who don't always play well together assemble in Tomales with the purpose of pushing the asphalt envelope, usually until something snaps or we get hungry.

Summer 2009 will be remembered for all the great wine values that have arrived in the market.

Well, now we know what we face. The governor has cut an additional $6.2 million from the state parks budget, bringing the total to $14.2 million for the 2009-2010 fiscal year.

Led by marine biologist David L. Kimbro, now of The Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory , the study shows that in Tomales Bay , half the population of California's native Olympia oyster has perished because its habitat has fallen victim to the dysfunctional relationship between native species and non-native ones accidentally ...

Invasive species are enemy No. 1 to native Olympia oysters unlucky enough to find themselves in Tomales Bay, about 40 miles north of San Francisco, scientists say.

A study of oyster reefs in a once-pristine California coastal estuary found them devastated by invasive Atlantic Coast crabs and snails, providing new evidence of the consequences when human activities move species beyond their natural borders.

By Lisa Hulette The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District has been awarded $1.54 Million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the Save our Salmon Salmon Creek Habitat Rehabilitation Project.