Half Moon Bay News

The 2009 Art and Pumpkin Festival will have lots of fun, exciting and semi-scary events and activities for the entire family.

A platter at Wasabi Japanese Fine Dining & Sushi consists of : Touchdown, fried California, lion king, Half Moon Bay and Summit long rolls and inari fried tofu pouches.

This past weekend, stifling temperatures around the Bay Area caused a rush of people to flee towards the coast.

Ten thousand Bay Area residents turned on the lights in their homes on Wednesday night, courtesy of recycled gas from the Ox Mountain Landfill.

Always eager to show off the Coastside's lovely flowers, plants, and other amenities, the Half Moon Bay Coastside Chamber of Commerce & Visitors' Bureau will hold its 18th-annual Tour des Fleurs, a greenhouse-winery tour, on July 18.

The Coastal Arts League Museum and Gallery in Half Moon Bay is the venue for a new exhibit by Pacifica artists Alysanne McGaffey and Marian Yap.

A new "gas-to-energy" power plant at the Ox Mountain Landfill will collect methane from rotting garbage and burn the gas to generate electricity.

Scientists are reporting a decline in the number of sea otters on the Central California coast, and they believe humans are at least partially to blame.

The mother and daughter were dragged out to sea about 4:20 p.m. Monday. Indali still had a pulse when she was pulled from the water, but was going in and out of consciousness as she was taken by a Coast Guard helicopter to Stanford Medical Center, authorities said.

San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell and other African American leaders in the Bayview are not at all happy about how this week's visit by first lady Michelle Obama was handled.

Simon Prendegast swam as far into the shallows as he could before he grounded his stomach on the sandy bottom, then stood up suddenly in water that only came halfway up his shins a trick which had given him pleasure for three decades.

The Coastside Film Society presents "A film so enchanting one hates to see it come to an end." - Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times Travellers & Magicians Deep in the Himalayas, in the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, two men seek to escape their mundane lives.

A 6-year-old girl suffering from hypothermia was flown to an area hospital by helicopter Monday afternoon after a boat carrying her and five other people capsized in the waters near Half Moon Bay, authorities said.

Developer Charles Keenan will soon be $18 million richer as city officials prepare to write the check that will seal an inglorious chapter in Half Moon Bay history known as Beachwood.

AB650, the bill to give Half Moon Bay some assistance with the settlement it agreed to pay developer Chop Keenan, is officially dead.

The Coast Guard, with help from partner agencies, rescued a surfer in distress Friday night near Half Moon Bay.

Find out more about Wanda: Wanda Hennig, an award-winning food and travel writer, believes we are what we eat .

Find out more about Stephanie: Stephanie Donahue Chastain is a writer and mother who has lived in San Francisco for 20 years.

What do painting murals, teaching tech classes, and gardening have to do with Google? These are a few of the activities Googlers have participated in over the past few weeks as part of our second annual GoogleServe a ' a chance for Googlers to give back to their local communities through service projects.

Riptide's mantra is "shop locally," but occasionally we like to sample coastside delights a bit to the south of Pacifica.