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Surfer’s Ring Lost in Pacific Ocean Returned After 35 Years
Robert Fowler said he was certain that he would never see his ring again when it slipped off his finger in 1979 and was...
Oakland Zoo Has Become a Leader in Elephant Welfare
The Oakland Zoo has become a national pioneer in elephant welfare, especially because it helped revolutionize the way these large animals are cared for...
Ancient Trees: Woman Spends 14 Years Photographing Earth’s Oldest Trees
San Francisco based photographer Beth Moon has spent fourteen years capturing haunting images of ancient trees around the world.
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Racer Turned Quadriplegic Beats One in a Million Odds With Triumphant Recovery
Fifteen years after a profoundly life-altering accident, Aaron Baker lives a life that medical professionals never believed possible. A professional motocross racer deemed a...
How Famous Artists Would Plate Their Thanksgiving Food
San Francisco-based artist Hannah Rothstein has created a brilliant photo series that imagines how famous artists would plate their Thanksgiving dishes, using turkey, mashed...
High School Athlete Rejects Disabled Label, Excels in 3 Sports, Inspires All
“Honestly, if he had both hands, he might just be a typical good athlete," said Riley Quinn's father. "Not having that hand just made...
Coffee With Cats: America’s First Cat Cafe Opens In Oakland
Cat Town Café – the nation’s first permanent cat café – is now open in downtown Oakland to serve coffee and promote feline adoptions.
Cat...
Make-A-Wish Started With One Boy, Celebrates 250,000 Wishes Granted
Make-A-Wish is celebrating a huge milestone, having granted a quarter million wishes in the United States since the children’s charity was founded in 1980.
The wish-granting...
Town Celebrating 100 Year Old Cash Register with Birthday Party
"High up in the Sierra at the end of a twisty mountain road, this tiny town is going to have a 100th birthday party...
Nerds for Nature: Techies and Treehuggers Unite to Help the Earth
"Comprised of amateur scientists, engineers, ecologists and environmentalists, a San Francisco area collective, Nerds for Nature (N4N), is trying to bridge the gap between...
Volunteers of All Faiths Join Assisi Friar, Bring Joy to Poor Kids
In America today, something truly amazing is going viral -- a new spirit of unity and giving.
In that rising spirit, hundreds of volunteers are...
8 Year Old Fan Autographs Baseball Player’s First Home Run Ball
In his first Major League Baseball game, 27-year-old rookie Chris Dominguez could not stop smiling after his home run ball was retrieved from a little...
Google Surprises LA Teachers By Funding All Classroom Requests On DonorsChoose.org
Google has fully funded the classroom requests of every Los Angeles Unified School District teacher on the education crowd-funding site DonorsChoose.org. As a result...
University of California Signs Major Solar Deal
The University of California announced yesterday that it will make the largest solar energy purchase by any U.S. higher education institution to fulfill 60%...
BikeMobile Fixes More Than Kids’ Bikes in Low Income Neighborhoods (WATCH)
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Tommy Bensko went on the road to primarily in low-income neighborhoods, fixing kids’ bikes for free and giving them a hands-on education about...
Weekly ‘Pop-up Picnic’ Builds Community in Oakland
No one knows exactly who started it, but since spring, people who live in Oakland, California have been showing up Sunday afternoons for a...
9 Things Successful People Won’t Do
If you want to manage your emotions you need to focus as much on what you won’t do as what you will do.
TalentSmart, an emotional intelligence training...
River Getting Reef-to-ridge Makeover to Save Salmon
The deep-blue Ten Mile River snakes down from the mountains through redwood forests and coastal wetlands before it flows past the rolling sand dunes...
New App Lets Patients Show Gratitude to Nurses, Doctors
A new free service has launched that allows people to send notes of thanks to their doctors, nurses, and other health care workers via a website.
UCSF...
Teen Collects Clothing and Tooth Paste for Border Refugees
After watching a documentary about the thousands of child refugees at the Nogales, Arizona border who were fleeing to escape violence and drug gangs,...