2+ hour, 58+ min ago   (678+ words) The Marin Municipal Water District has adopted an urban water management plan that reflects an expected population growth of nearly 60,000 in its service area by 2050. The district board adopted the plan on Tuesday. In June, it asked staff to update…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (325+ words) Marin’s sea-level-rise planning will be stronger if groundwater, land-motion monitoring and other flood factors are integrated into existing flood-risk planning before major public investments are designed, funded or built. When most people think about sea-level rise, they picture bay water…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (700+ words) Faded ink stamps of the Mechanics’ Institute Library dot the book’s pages, which are spotted with age and darkened by smoke. The book, an 1875 first-edition collection of poetry, “Echoes of the Foot-Hills,” was thought to be lost forever but was…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (22+ words) A high-ranking federal official who visited Point Reyes Station this week found an active fault line on the issue of agriculture....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (521+ words) Work has wrapped up on a collaboration to rehabilitate infrastructure systems in Larkspur. The Heather Gardens lift station and the Heatherwood stormwater pump station have been undergoing an upgrade to improve the systems, originally built in the 1960s. The lift station,…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (397+ words) Flood-control efforts are advancing in the Bel Aire neighborhood in Tiburon. After preliminary study, local officials are asking county supervisors to allocate $693,000 to engineer a creek and drainage system restoration. The request comes before the board on Aug. 18. “This project…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (447+ words) School officials have gotten their first peek at potential designs for an outdoor education landscape at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Academy in Sausalito. Project consultants offered a presentation during the Sausalito Marin City School District board meeting on Thursday....

1+ year, 4+ day ago   (621+ words) California is at a groundwater management crossroads as legal loopholes threaten to undo the state’s progress toward responsible groundwater sustainability. At the core of this legal conflict are two legal processes. The first is the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, the…...