The Alum Gap campsite provides a strategic base near the Stone Door, allowing campers to experience sunset and sunrise from ...

State health officials discouraged foraging this year, saying that toxic mushrooms can easily be confused with safe ones to eat.

California health officials are urging people to “not eat wild mushrooms" ...

Recent news of more than 30 cases of mushroom-related illness and death has prompted some Southern Californians to seek a ...

Thanks to an exceptionally wet December, death cap mushrooms — or Amanita phalloides — have proliferated along the Central Coast and in Northern California. As a result, there’s been a sudden uptick ...

More than three dozen cases of death cap mushroom poisonings have been reported in California since November, health ...

"This is probably the largest outbreak in California history," an official said. Foragers are being warned of what could be the largest toxic mushroom outbreak in California history, which state ...

Move over Hollywood — California’s latest horror hit isn’t on the screen, it’s sprouting from the forest floor. A freak ...

California health officials issue urgent warning after toxic death cap mushrooms cause fatal outbreak. These dangerous fungi ...

California health officials are sounding the alarm about a deadly poisoning outbreak linked to Amanita phalloides, or the death cap mushroom. The California Department of Public Health reported 35 ...