This beautiful small SoCal town flies under the radar of travelers, but savvy road-trippers won't want to miss this best-kept ...

Without planning, a landscape of California native plants can feel a little drab, especially in late summer when many go ...

Tecomaria capensis, commonly known as cape honeysuckle, is a fast-growing, evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub native to ...

California is entering the fourth month of what is typically the rainy season, but in the Southland, the landscape is beginning to show signs of drought. The last time Los Angeles recorded ...

Now, the weather pendulum has swung the other way. Drought has swept over the Southern California landscape after one of the region’s hottest summers on record, and the driest start to the rainy ...

Mountain lions and other wildlife adapted to the wildfires that shaped the Southern California landscape over thousands of years. Many animals respond to cues that act as early warning signs of ...

Isaac Sanchez, the deputy chief of communications for Cal Fire, put it more plainly: “The landscape in all of Southern California is ready to burn.” The moisture-starved vegetation and the ...

SAN DIEGO — Drought is back in Southern California — a region that has not seen significant rain for nearly nine months — and the remarkable dryness has made the landscape vulnerable to ...

Current forecasts show little hope that a needed storm could develop in the next few weeks, and the Southern California landscape—ripe for wildfire and never far from chronic water shortages ...