Their moving lights and night activity — "the kind of lights that usually mean someone is doing more than sightseeing," the ...

Just outside the town of Mendocino in the middle of Van Damme Beach, a weathered placard educates bystanders about the region's red abalone, a once prolific seasnail whose mild taste and iridescent ...

California’s recreational harvest of abalone has been banned since 2018. On Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, the Fish and Game Commission approved the extension of the ban. Photo from Windsor Police ...

On Nov. 7, officers of the California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife apprehended a man suspected of poaching 15 red abalone at Ocean Cove, on the Sonoma Coast. Department of Fish and Wildlife A suspected ...

A routine traffic stop in Sonoma County turned out to be anything but as police found methamphetamine, about three dozen illegally harvested abalone and a live pond turtle, authorities said. The ...

Abalone is one of the most expensive seafood items in the world, but what makes this gastropod so sought-after? These are the factors that go into the price.

A police search of a vehicle pulled over in California turned up drugs, illegally harvested abalone and a pond turtle, California police reported. A 46-year-old Santa Rosa man driving the vehicle was ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to extend the closure of the recreational red abalone fishery for another decade, keeping the ban in place until April 2036.