Racetrack Playa's "sailing stones" drag tracks across a dry lakebed with nobody touching them. The science took until 2014 to ...

In one of the hottest places on Earth, a vanished Ice Age lake has quietly returned to life. Where most visitors expect a blinding white salt pan, they are now finding open water stretching across the ...

A heat dome puts 19 states under extreme heat warnings, with temperatures in some areas expected to reach 120 F.

This scenic byway passes some of the state's most iconic views and makes for one heck of a road trip, completely with alpine ...

Shasta County Vector Control reported it found West Nile Virus in mosquitoes south of Redding. It's the first time the ...

Before the United States entered World War I, U.S. officials mistook German sabotage for an industrial accident.

At 47, he’s a relative newcomer to politics—he was the head of Robin Hood, a poverty-fighting foundation, until 2021—but he’s ...

But on that day in March, he swapped out a reading on the Delano Grape Strike for The Times investigation, including a testimony by Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, who revealed ...

The shortest distance between you and feeling like you’ve left planet Earth is exactly one mile. Hidden Valley Nature Trail ...

Located just a few miles outside of town, the Trona Pinnacles are one of the most otherworldly geological formations in the ...

Blistering heat was expected to spread across a vast portion of the Western United States on Friday and through the weekend, with temperatures soaring into the 90s and even to over 120 degrees from ...

Fresno Engineer John Ennis has found an historic quirk that he believes can result in a very specific outcome in the San Joaquin Valley.