A Northern California apartment owner was fined $1.45 million by the California Coastal Commission Thursday for blocking beach access and allowing unpermitted construction on a Pacifica beach.
Read moreIn what was called “long overdue,” the California Coastal Commission Wednesday held the first public hearing on a new policy to consult with Native American tribes in California on coastal matters.
Read moreAttorneys sparred in a San Diego courtroom Wednesday morning over whether five current and former Coastal Commissioners violated the Coastal Act in failing to disclose private meetings and if they should face hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil penalties.
Read moreA former member of the California Coastal Commission testified Tuesday about his failure to disclose private meetings with developers which led to his recusal in a vote on a contentious coastal development in Orange County.
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A member of the California Coastal Commission recounted in a civil trial Thursday a meeting he had with U2 guitarist The Edge at a concert in Dublin just before the Coastal Commission approved the musician’s development permit in Malibu.
Read moreThe California Coastal Commission vowed to fight the Trump administration’s offshore drilling program during its Wednesday meeting, outlining its battle plans as the sole California agency that has authority over oil and gas leasing in federal waters.
Read moreThe construction of a seawall and its contribution to beach erosion took center stage at the California Coastal Commission’s monthly meeting Wednesday, in the form of a debate between those looking to prevent flooding of a public golf course and those who say seawalls damage beaches and are too little, too late in the face of climate change.
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The California Coastal Commission received a tongue-lashing Wednesday from experts and citizens at a hearing about its 2015 permit to allow spent nuclear waste to be buried on a Southern California beach.
Read moreCalifornia Attorney General Xavier Becerra – standing steps from the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego – said Wednesday he and the California Coastal Commission have sued the federal government for circumventing state and federal environmental laws in order to speed up construction of the border wall.
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California Coastal Commission leaders expressed concern Wednesday over what they anticipate to be a knock-down, drag-out fight between coastal homeowners and local governments as sea-level rise poses an imminent threat to development on California’s coast.
Read moreThe California Coastal Commission took steps to close the only remaining coastal sand mine in the United States during its meeting on Thursday.
Read moreCoastal homeowners in California can’t build their seawalls and challenge them too, as the state’s high court ruled Thursday homeowners lost the right to challenge conditions placed on a seawall permit after they’d already built the $1 million project.
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The California Coastal Commission has reached a tentative settlement with a sand mining company that would lead to the shuttering of a controversial sand-removal operation that residents say is eroding the coast of Monterey Bay.
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The California Coastal Commission narrowly denied the renewal of a permit for an oyster farm to operate in Humboldt Bay in the northwestern tip of California.
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Justices with California’s Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a case that could set precedent for homeowners along the state’s pricey – and crumbling – coast.
Read moreA Superior Court judge could rule by Friday on whether U2 guitarist The Edge can break ground on a $79 million, five-home project on 151 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains, or whether it needs more environmental review.
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The California Supreme Court unanimously rejected the environmental impact report prepared by the city of Newport Beach in approving a controversial mixed-use development on 401 acres of ecologically sensitive coastline known as Banning Ranch.
Read moreThe California Coastal Commission flexed its enforcement muscles Thursday and fined an upscale beachfront restaurant $500,000 for blocking public access to a popular San Mateo beach, and asked its staff to crack down on repeat violators of the Coastal Act.
Read moreThe California Coastal Commission on Wednesday approved a $30 million project to renovate the remaining 17 cottages at historic Crystal Cove State Park as affordable overnight cabins for visitors.
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