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On a tiny, windswept island off the San Mateo County coast, a team of scientists and art designers has engineered a creative solution to give mating seabirds a boost: ceramic "love shacks." These handcrafted underground nests are one piece of the Ano Nuevo Island Restoration Project, a unique collaboration between scientists and artists that hopes ...

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A big-wave surfer from Hawaii has died at the Maverick's surf break. Fellow surfers tell the Santa Cruz Sentinel that 35-year-old Sion Milosky apparently drowned on Wednesday evening while surfing waves up to 60 feet at the break off the San Mateo County coast.

The contest has new organizers, a group composed of the surfers themselves, who agreed with public safety officials that only participants and staff would have beach access this year, said Peter Grenell, general manager of the San Mateo County Harbor District.

A body found washed ashore in Pacifica on Tuesday morning has been identified as the 44-year-old man who was swept out into the ocean from Sharp Park Beach last month, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said Thursday.

Scores of San Mateo County sheriff's deputies are looking for a man who never came home from a Thursday evening hike in the Skeggs Point area of unincorporated San Mateo County.