Katie Dowd is the SFGATE managing editor. She started her career at SFGATE in 2011 shortly after graduating from UC Berkeley. She was born and raised in the Bay Area.

Proposed plans on a protected area are being criticised by Kent charity over concerns about the effect building work will have on the environment. Daisy Page reports. Elon Musk freezes Tesla ...

Nina Jones, a warden at Pegwell Bay, said she was concerned about ... to impact the habitats here at the salt marsh and the mud flats," she said. "We're expecting 13.6 hectares of land to be ...

2:07 Business Matters: Hudson’s Bay liquidation sales begin at all but 6 stores Hudson’s Bay is liquidating all but six of its stores. It has 80 stores under the Hudson’s Bay banner ...

Along the route runners will benefit from the most amazing coastal views across Pegwell Bay towards Ramsgate, in addition to views along the nature reserve and intertidal mud flats that year on ...

But protected area warden Nina Jones said: “While these sensitive spaces are usually off-limits to safeguard the precious wildlife that depends on Pegwell Bay’s mudflats for feeding and rest ...

This Beach Clean event will take place on the beach close to the white cliffs within the Sandwich & Pegwell Bay National Nature Reserve ... to the start of the sandy beach (above the ...

Pegwell Bay is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and an internationally important National Nature Reserve, which was opened by Sir David Attenborough in 1999. Its mudflats and salt marshes are ...

Devastated kitesurfers have been banned from a coastal Kent beauty spot they had used for more than 20 years after “disturbing birds”. An agreement between Natural England, Kent Wildlife Trust ...

An agreement between Natural England, Kent Wildlife Trust (KWT) and the watersport enthusiasts had previously permitted the activity at Pegwell Bay, near Ramsgate. Graeme Rolbiecki, who runs Kite ...