In 2021, a mysterious real estate investment firm started buying up desert land within Joshua Tree National Park. Fast ...

For Eli Rael, whose ancestors moved here in the late 1800s, it's always been simply "La Sierra," a communal mountain landscape where settlers and their descendants could graze livestock, hunt for food ...

In Santa Barbara County, a “possible sinkhole” closed part of Highway 1 south of Lompoc as an atmospheric river storm hit the ...