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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

What makes this trail otherworldly isn’t the difficulty or the distance, it’s the sheer strangeness of the landscape.

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

Even as the Rock Fire was coming under control in the Eastern Sierra, new wildfires cropped up just north of it. Related ...

Josepha Littlewolf Basurto, 31, was found shot dead at an illicit marijuana cultivation site on July 9, authorities said.