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

"The main thing this year is just the magnitude, the number of people ingesting this mushroom.... Having almost 40 is very unusual." ...

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

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 ...

Officials say this rainy season has created ideal conditions for the widespread growth of toxic death cap mushrooms across ...

The California Department of Public Health reported 39 related poisonings in the last three months, leading to the death of ...

(KRON) — At least 40 people statewide have been hospitalized and four people killed since November, all linked to the ...

More poisoning cases have struck across the Central Coast, with Monterey County and San Francisco Bay Area seeing the largest ...

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

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