Laura Kraft

Avoid headaches by addresing local landscape ordinances early in the development process.

San Francisco cab companies want more permits for cabs, which under current law are allotted to individuals.

How would you like to commute 100 miles in each direction? It's happening in Silicon Valley because jobs there are a dime a dozen. Housing isn't.

Amid concern about the environmental impacts of a new UC Merced campus, 60,000 acrese around the campus will be purchased as a wetlands preserve.

In the Mojave Desert, military bases could become islands of habitat in a sea of urban sprawl. Now researchers are using GIS and other tools to study the options.