N estled on a peninsula between the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco is a northern California port city ...

California transforms in spring with rolling hills of poppies and desert valleys bursting with color. Here’s where to catch the season’s best blooms.

Desert X 2025 is a site-specific international art exhibition in California’s Coachella Valley featuring eleven land art installations by international artists.

The Idyllwild hideaway has a treehouse-like main residence designed in 1980 by architect Dennis McGuire, plus a recently ...

In places where real palm fronds aren’t available, worshippers sometimes get creative by making Easter crafts, using the branches of other trees (pussy willows are a favorite!), plants local to ...

A reader surprised me with an inquiry about a mature Mexican fan palm dying suddenly here in Napa. A possible cause came to ...

The 3-year-old, 12-foot-tall Msituni jumped out of her enclosure 10 minutes prior to the zoo opening for the day on March 5, 2025.

A dramatic three-day rescue effort that involved helicopters, high winds and 20 mountain rescue team members saved the lives ...

A painstaking study of an archaeology site in western Honduras showed just how far back the avocado has been farmed.

Avocado toast at the Skylark Hotel in Palm Springs ... pebbly rind. These trees are all clones from the original Hass tree ...

Arizona's utilities work year-round to clear vegetation from power lines and other equipment. The recent California wildfires ...