Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. An annual reforestation project to plant more ...

On a warm July morning, the Monterey pine forest surrounding Cambria was alive with sound: the faint buzzing of insects, chirps of nearby birds and crunching footsteps of an occasional deer navigating ...

According to botanist John Thomas Howell’s “Marin Flora,” five pine species grow in Marin. Bishop pine, Monterey pine, knobcone pine, Torrey pine and Coulter pine can be distinguished from each other ...

Our Thanksgiving turkey is at the soup stage and Christmas is almost here. Poinsettias are in full bloom as well as the related shrub, snows of Kilimanjaro, or Euphorbia leucocephala. Folks are ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Driving Route 92 from the San Francisco peninsula to the Pacific coast in late fall, you may begin to hear music, laughter and get a whiff of pine and fir trees. You’ve found ...

In the hills of Ramona, amid the groves of avocados and wineries, sits a small Christmas tree farm. It's one of the few places in San Diego where people can come to pick out their Christmas tree, have ...