Friday the 13th was a lucky day this June for the southwest Iowa city of Avoca, pop. 1,700. Restaurants along Main Street had ...

California has protected over one million acres of land and coastal waters since mid-2024, an area roughly equal to that of ...

Nearly a century ago, L.A. County suffered the deadliest dam failure in U.S. history. Design flaws caused the St. Francis Dam ...

Tulare Lake was drained by farmers more than a century ago, and it has reappeared only rarely when floods have reclaimed ...