If you’ve driven Highway 1 near San Simeon in the past few years, chances are you’ve noticed the extraordinary northern elephant seal colony at Piedras Blancas Beach. Last spring, when I stopped in after a reporting trip to disaster-prone Big Sur, a docent told me that the very best time to see…
BACKYARD RAPTORS The 22nd annual Great Backyard Bird Count is underway and continues through Monday. To celebrate, we take a look at a few of the more prestigious raptors of California that have come dangerously close to extinction that you might find in your own backyard. BALD EAGLE The bald eagle has been the national…
1967 car bombing in Monterey Park injured two.
The Newport Beach city attorney has given the Newport Aquatic Center a March 8 deadline to respond to more than 40 allegations raised by community members that NAC executive director Billy Whitford and other employees and board members for the tax-exempt, non-profit organization used NAC funds to purchase automobiles and other items for personal use…
Sandra Banuelos, 18, takes a ride on a tire swing over the beginnings of Trabuco Creek at the end of Trabuco Oaks Dr. in Trabuco Canyon, CA on Thursday, February 14, 2019. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG) A visitors at Golden West College carries a Starry Night umbrella during the rain in Huntington…
More than 10,000 people are expected to pack a small high desert baseball stadium next month for what might be the first state-sanctioned cannabis festival in Southern California. Dope Cup High Desert, put on through a new partnership between High Times and Dope magazines, is taking advantage of a change in state law that allows…
A powerful winter storm drenched Los Angeles and Orange counties on Thursday, pummeling the region with rain and wind that led to widespread flooding and debris flows while dumping as much as five inches of rain on the San Gabriel Mountains. Sandra Banuelos, 18, takes a ride on a tire swing over the beginnings of…
It’s a dictator’s move! It’s a long-overdue push against illegal immigration! It’s politically tone-deaf! And that covers just some of the views expressed by immigration activists, Southern California House members, constitutional scholars and others when asked about President Donald Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency as a way to override Congress and pay for part of…
Shawn Archbold handed out chocolate, flowers and coffee to strangers on Thursday, Valentine’s Day. No, he wasn’t looking for a date, although he was trying to spark a connection between the importance of honey bees to the U.S. food supply and pesticide use. “Bees pollinate everything from chocolate, to flowers to coffee. Without bees, we’d…
A man who had been hospitalized for weeks died on Wednesday, Feb. 13, following a traffic collision that happened in Huntington Beach at the end of January A preliminary investigation suggests that a Toyota Tundra traveling north on Brookhurst Street collided with a Cadillac Escalade at Atlanta Avenue shortly before 8:42 a.m., according to a news…
