Louis Sahagun

Maria Jesus, right, conservation program assistant of the California Botanic Garden, peers through a magnifying glass while Naomi Fraga, director of conservation programs of the California Botanic Garden, holds a petal with an ovary as they look for seeds on the endangered Amargosa niterwort plant in the Lower Carson Slough near Amargosa on July 14, 2021, in...

California builds a ‘Noah’s Ark’ to protect wildlife from extinction by fire and heat

August 27, 2021 at 5:46 p.m.

SHOSHONE, Calif. — It was just before sunrise in July when the botanists Naomi Fraga and Maria Jesus threw on backpacks and crunched their way across a brittle alkaline flat...

A pronghorn antelope pauses while eating wildflowers along a highway where cattle once grazed near the Mojave Desert town of Beatty, Nevada on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. "Pronghorn are following lush buffets of rain-fed wildflowers," said California director of the nonprofit Western Watersheds Project Laura Cunningham.

Desert mystery: Why have pronghorn antelope returned to Death Valley?

May 15, 2020 at 5:15 p.m.

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — More than a century after railroads, ranchers and hunters vanquished their ancestors, pronghorn antelope are returning to this unforgiving expanse of desert along the...

Gina Grande takes a stroll in the desert landscape next to her home after she managed to leave her apartment in San Francisco the day the "shelter in place" was declared and drive to her home in Joshua Tree on March 18, 2020 in Joshua Tree, Calif. Grande was two weeks into her new job and is now telecommuting from Joshua Tree.

Hoping to escape coronavirus, city dwellers are fleeing to California’s deserts and mountains

March 27, 2020 at 8:09 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — Just two weeks after Gina Grande landed her dream job in San Francisco, authorities ordered residents to stay home in a desperate bid to slow the spread...

With every purchase, the Herbarium in Los Angeles was offering free delivery and a stylish black face mask that says, "Corona Free Herbarium."

Liquor, marijuana and guns are also popular among hoarders as fear grows over coronavirus

March 16, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.

Amid widespread shortages of hand sanitizer and hand wipes in supermarkets and drug stores, people are turning to a makeshift substitute — Everclear, a brand of 120-proof grain alcohol that...

Un terremoto de 6.4 grados sacudió el sur de California el jueves por la mañana.

El terremoto más fuerte en décadas golpeó el sur de California, con una magnitud de 6.4 grados

July 4, 2019 at 11:42 p.m.

Un terremoto de magnitud 6.4 sacudió el sur de California el jueves, el temblor más grande que ha afectado a la región en dos décadas. El terremoto de las 10:33...

Part of the estimated 150 unbranded feral bulls and cows in the new Sand to Snow National Monument near Palm Springs.

Feral cattle terrorize hikers at a California national monument

August 22, 2019 at 8:00 a.m.

Sand to Snow National Monument is a quiet place — its mountainous high desert and cascading streams a draw for those seeking panoramic views, tranquility and solitude. But on a...

The Colorado River flows through Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. A superintendent of the park was removed for failing to appropriately investigate accusations of harassment of park employees.

Interior Secretary Zinke vows to end culture of harassment and intimidation in Park Service

August 22, 2019 at 6:16 a.m.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Friday announced a plan to combat sexual harassment, bullying and intimidation of employees within America's national parks system and to hold managers accountable if inappropriate...

Shark fins for sale in Los Angeles' Chinatown before California's ban took effect in 2013.

Bill aims to take shark fins off the menu in United States

August 22, 2019 at 3:28 a.m.

It's been four years since California's ban on the purchase and possession of shark fins went into effect. And yet, more than 60 tons of shark fins arrive at the...

A resident on Del Lago Road watches as a helicopter circles overhead after three police officers were shot in Palm Springs.

Suspect in custody after 2 Palm Springs police officers fatally shot

August 22, 2019 at 1:26 a.m.

Two Palm Springs police officers were fatally shot and another wounded Saturday afternoon while responding to a domestic disturbance call, police said. Just before 1 a.m. Sunday, more than 12...

Since the leak began Oct. 23 near Porter Ranch, it has sent about 80,000 metric tons of gas, mostly methane, into the atmosphere.

After 16 weeks, gas leak near Los Angeles is stopped — at least temporarily

June 20, 2019 at 1:59 a.m.

Southern California Gas Co. announced Thursday that it has temporarily controlled the flow of gas from a well near Porter Ranch, a crucial first step in the effort to stop...

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