LOS ALAMITOS, CA— When you go to Laurel Park, you'll see two more brightly flowering Eastern Redbud trees, thanks to the ...

A California man was left stunned after he found a massive mountain lion perched in a tree above his house. The homeowner, identified only as Chris, was caught off guard on Monday after hearing ...

California bay leaves come from a completely different type of tree, the California bay laurel (Umbellularia californica).

To cheers and applause from kids wearing spacesuits and star-studded T-shirts, a tree was planted in California that is out of this world. The so-called "Moon Tree"—grown with seeds that were ...

They call themselves the Wednesday Wave Warriors. Every week, they meet up on the shores of Refugio State Beach, about 20 miles up the coast from Santa Barbara, and make their way out into the ...

And I realized that within the last few inches of that tree's life, we'd very nearly liquidated a 2,000-year-old forest." A ragged blanket of coastal fog in northern California’s Humboldt ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— California lawmakers today passed the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act, permanently protecting the iconic and imperiled species. The new law cleared the Assembly 54-15 and the ...

Shoes of every stripe festoon a juniper tree beside a lonely stretch of highway north of Hallelujah Junction, California. Some bear messages marking special occasions: baby shoes celebrating a ...

Laurel Rosenhall leads the Los Angeles Times’ coverage of California politics, supervising a team that includes journalists in Sacramento, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Based in the ...

Nov. 2—The Laurel High football team had three golden opportunities to score points in the first half. California, though, turned the Spartans away each time. Laurel couldn't overcome those lost ...

By Corina Knoll and Jesus Jiménez Voters appear to be rejecting Proposition 6 in California, a measure to end involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime. By Orlando Mayorquín ...