From fake snow in the desert to a massive palm tree tunnel to an annual parade, the Palm Springs area is ready to celebrate ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Wildlights, the popular holiday lights display, will return to the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens starting Nov. 25. Wildlights ...

Animals from the Big Bear Alpine Zoo that were transported to Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert last week to evacuate from the Line fire could be returning back home on Thursday. Conditions ...

The Living Desert’s WildLights returns with millions of lights, free photos with Santa, animal sightings and festive holiday ...

Zoya, a 21-year-old Amur leopard and one of the world’s oldest, died at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert. (Photo courtesy of the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens) A critically endangered ...

Staff at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert are mourning the passing of Zoya, an Amur leopard that had been a resident of the zoo for the past 11 years. Zoya, one of the rarest cats on ...

PALM DESERT – The Living Desert’s collection of arid-zone animals is continuing to expand, the zoo announced Wednesday, with the addition of a fossa from North Dakota. Shilo, 3½, is the parks’ first ...

A wildlife rehabilitation zoo evacuated its animals from its property in Big Bear Lake and transported them to a facility in Palm Desert due to heat and fire danger presented by the Line Fire. Big ...