This year's rise in poisonous mushroom varieties in California has led to precipitous rise in illness and deaths from ...

County health officials are asking residents to not eat wild mushrooms following dozens of hospitalizations reported throughout the state. San Joaquin Public Health Services posted a public service ...

A couple in Salinas, Calif., is warning the public not to pick up and consume wild mushrooms after surviving a near-fatal ...

The answer to the “are wild mushrooms edible?” question is yes and no. Unfortunately, not enough people know that — and the number of being being poisoned by wild mushrooms is going up around the ...

A third person has died in a rash of poisonings from wild, foraged mushrooms in California, health officials report.