Marissa Luck, who covers real estate for the Chronicle, said the biggest landowner statewide surprised her.

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling in favor of four hunters who faced civil trespassing charges for violating airspace above private land they never touched.

Last year, the Land Report, a magazine that tracks private land ownership, reported that Chinese billionaire Tianqiao Chen owns about 200,000 acres of forestland in Oregon, making him the second ...