On one side is a former America’s Cup yachtsman and dot-com entrepreneur John Sweeney, who once flew tech founders to the island to join an exclusive surf ... the California Water Board and ...

T he 10-year fight over a private island in the San Francisco Bay ends today. Point Buckler’s 50 acres of marshland on the southern edge of Grizzly Bay will be sold to the highest bidder on the ...

For a small fish only found in the San Francisco Estuary, the delta smelt has caused a lot of controversy over the years.

In 1993, the smelt was listed as threatened under the Federal Endangered Species Act and the California Endangered Species Act, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife website.

It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta ...

And it aligns with his broader anti-environmental agenda.” Followers of California water politics have long known the delta smelt as a key indicator species for the health of a fragile ecosystem.