As the clerk-recorder of Orange County, Hugh Nguyen has many duties — including coming up with new ways to make it easy for ...

Multiple piers have come and gone along the Santa Cruz coast, and in the last two columns I have slowly meandered south from ...

Technically, local jurisdictions in California that don’t have sanctuary ordinances are still subject to the state’s sanctuary law that took effect in 2018. Known as the California Values Act, it ...

“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National ...

Friends of Friendship Park, the nonprofit group behind the park, said $1 million in funding will allow them to create a plan ...

Carpinteria residents want a beach closure to protect harbor seals. The city says it doesn't have the resources. After the ...

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The National Institutes of Health have even done studies on how volunteering is good for your physical and emotional health.

About 177 years ago, Charles Weber stepped off a boat at what is now Weber Point and saw tule marshes, swamps and a malaria-ridden area. But, the man who would come to be known as the "Father of ...

The city of Huntington Beach is suing California over a sanctuary state law that prevents local law enforcement from working ...

Research scientists with San Jose State University’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) detected “unusually high ...