Several times per year, San Francisco’s sewage and stormwater system gets overwhelmed by rain runoff. The excess polluted water flows straight into the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. The ...

So far none of San Diego's most popular beaches have closures or advisories. Buonomo says the Imperial Beach coastline, near ...

There has been little incentive to join or stay as a lifeguard in Imperial Beach. But city officials said last week that an ...

The California Coastal Commission recently approved a $175-million project that will protect San Francisco’s Ocean Beach as well as key parts of the city's wastewater infrastructure imperiled by ...

San Francisco has more than 1,900 miles of sewer mains and laterals. Some are more than 100 years old. The city operates two large wastewater treatment plants that run 24 hours a day.

The conservative Supreme Court aligned with liberal San Francisco on Tuesday, ruling that federal environmental regulators overstepped their authority by attempting to impose vague limits on how ...

A $175 million seawall project will shore up a wastewater treatment plant and a sewage tunnel on the southern end of San Francisco's Ocean Beach to help protect the area from erosion.

San Francisco has long used the Pacific Ocean as its toilet. In heavy rains, the city on the hill cannot store all the storm runoff and sewage that flows toward an oceanside treatment plant in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The California Coastal Commission approved a $175 million project to protect a wastewater plant just south of Ocean Beach. The money will be used to build a seawall that will ...

San Francisco has long used the Pacific Ocean as its toilet. In heavy rains, the city on the hill cannot store all the storm runoff and sewage that flows toward an oceanside treatment plant in a ...