FILE: A view of the Salton Sea in Southern California. Sofia Baird/500px/Getty Images For decades, the Salton Sea has mystified public imagination. Positioned in a rural desert region just miles from popular travel destinations like Palm Springs, it’s California’s largest inland lake — and one of its biggest ecological disasters. Millions of dollars of federal government funding, … Read more
Investigators discovered signs of arson Monday in the remains of the eight-acre blaze that torched and indefinitely closed a heavily trafficked section of the I-10 freeway in Downtown Los Angeles over the weekend. Here’s A Cheap Way To Keep Track Of Your Bike The I-10 freeway fire broke out in an under-freeway storage lot filled … Read more
FILE: Lake Tahoe could see rain over Labor Day weekend. George Rose/Getty Images Labor Day weekend is the last hurrah of summer — when Californians like to soak up some sun at beaches, at lakes and in the mountains. Not this year. An unseasonably cold low-pressure system had reached California by Friday morning, bringing chilly … Read more