Tara VanDerveer

Stanford women’s basketball coach, who won three national championships and 1,216 games — more than any men’s or women’s NCAA coach — announces a well-deserved retirement after 45 years.

anglers

The same week as Dungeness crab season is cut short to protect whales, federal regulators ban all salmon fishing off California for the second year in a row due to low numbers following the state’s recent drought.

Rich Lyons

Palo Alto native and former Cal business school dean is named chancellor of UC Berkeley and will make $946,450 a year. But he inherits a campus torn by budget challenges and culture wars over the Hamas-Israel war.