Late afternoon sunlight streams through the flora at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum. The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic ...

The bell tower design stands out as unique among California missions. Step inside to discover artwork brought from Spain in sailing ships long ago. The baptismal font, carved from a single stone, has ...

The Center for Biological Diversity warned that the impacted area is "one of the darkest remaining regions on the ...

A university biologist fears Project Blue data centers will need reclaimed water that now runs in the Santa Cruz. Tucson ...

The column from April 25 in which I described pest threats to our trees sparked a lot of interest.

Rocks for a local rock garden are best chosen from those that are naturally occurring in the area,” writes columnist Tom ...

The Coconino Master Gardener Association’s annual tour of local gardens is on Saturday, Aug. 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. One of the gardens on the tour belongs to ...

The extinct flightless pigeon has captured imaginations for over 400 years. Experts and artists are now revealing how much we ...

Tucked away along California’s magnificent Highway 1, Bean Hollow State Beach exists as a coastal secret that somehow escaped the fame factory that turned so many other beaches into tourist postcards ...

In the early 1900s, Judson Street was lengthened and joined to Perris Boulevard in Perris. In 1952, the Riverside County ...

The after-effects of a gastric bypass drove Penny Stadick to learn all she could about herbs and aromatherapy. Now the ...

A part of the native plant area at the Fresno Master Gardeners Garden of the Sun. (Photo: Janet Patten Veek) Preserving natural ecosystems and the native food web isn’t only for large swaths of ...