Travel reporter John Bartell visits abandoned mining camps, desert towns, and forgotten landmarks that once played key roles in the state’s history.

In 2014, the city of Los Angeles sued AllenCo Energy after residents claimed noxious vapors sickened residents living just ...

Thousands of National Guard troops were withdrawn from Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland after Trump's administration ...

Dozens of fertilizer bags wept blue fluid onto the forest floor. Irrigation tubes snaked across the craters of empty plant ...

Two websites that distribute instructions for how to manufacture ghost guns are facing a new lawsuit from the state of ...

As someone who's been to all 50 states, there have been hits and misses, but here here is my list of the most OVERRATED city in every US state.

In recent work published with scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, one nonprofit found that illegal grows pulsed ...

How many Democrats are too many? In the race for California governor, so many Democratic candidates have crowded into the ...

Some millennials in the U.S. have abandoned the prospect of owning a home, but one young woman has taken it to the extreme, living both a mortgage-free and rent-free lifestyle. Alanna Parrish is a ...

A sculpture park is being built in Piedmont, California, to honor the Dearing family, but one relative says it’s not enough.

Nearly 7,000 abandoned sites on California’s public lands likely an underestimate, according to nonprofit Integral Ecology Research Center. The team knows of only 587 that have been at least partly ...

Even after legalization, illicit cannabis grows continue to pollute California’s public lands. And the contamination, new research shows, lingers.