July 4th Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course saw more than 52,000 fans attend while generating more than $83 million in ...

Constructed between 1803 and 1816 by Spanish missionaries and Kumeyaay laborers, the Old Mission Dam is a testament to early engineering in California. This historic structure, located in Mission ...

From antiquity to modern times, the city has been rife with creatures that creep, slither, scurry and nest among its pillars ...

A coalition has begun an effort to bring back Tulare Lake and its once-vast wetlands on thousands of acres of farmland in the ...

In the past, severe storms such as Tropical Storm Kay and Tropical Storm Hilary have flooded Owens’ off-lake dust sources, ...

A California man was found shot to death in a vehicle parked in front of an Ozone Park house on the afternoon of Sunday, June ...

On the undercard of the Kentucky Oaks, Thorpedo Anna, the reigning Horse of the Year, suffered a loss against females for the first time in 18 months. Not only ...

The final section of the California aqueduct at the Newhall Pass in Sylmar, Calif. The California aqueduct is over 220 miles long and delivers water from the Owens River to Los Angeles. The ...

When the pueblo of Los Angeles was founded in 1781, the town was purposely located near the L.A. River. One of the first things community members built in June of that year was a water system.

Access to water played a critical role in the development of Los Angeles into one of the country’s largest cities. In 1900, it covered 61 square miles and had 102,000 residents.

The Aqua Marcia was the longest of the city’s aqueducts, running nearly 60 miles from its source in the countryside to the heart of ancient Rome. The author followed its course, above and below ...

Peace prevailed over the first decade following the aqueduct’s 1913 completion. But when a thirsty Los Angeles started pumping groundwater from beneath the valley floor in 1923, the city’s ...