A whale-watching tour off Southern California got a close-up look at a passing basking shark, which are rarely seen in warmer ...

Between brutal fire seasons in Los Angeles, David Longstreth wrote “Song of the Earth,” an album that captures the beauty, ...

The California Coastal Commission has been under siege like never before, alarming environmentalists and raising questions ...

Six Central Coast veterans who passed away without family will be honored by the community in a ceremony at the California Central Coast Veterans Cemetery.

Half a million barrels of toxic waste lurking beneath the waves just miles from California’s coastline sounds like the plot ...

For the fourth time in four years, a domoic acid event is devastating marine mammals across the Central Coast.

Paul “Bunyan”, Davey and Sherry McIntosh, the entire Horsford, Rhymer (St. Croix), Sealy, Garcia, Monel families and all other descendants of Venetia Joshua and Charles Horsford (St. Croix).

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A four-bedroom house in Indented Head was the most expensive sale reported in country Victoria and the Riverina last week.

California’s nation-leading $25 minimum wage for health workers relies on a significant boost in federal funding. It also leaves out thousands of state employees under an agreement that is expected to ...

By Don Clark His reporting sought to humanize ... New data suggests there were faults on Southern California Edison’s transmission lines early on Jan. 7 before the fire started that evening.

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: CHASING ATTORNEYS, NOT AMBULANCES — A new independent-expenditure group, Protecting American Consumers Together, is expanding its operations into California to target what it ...