A low rumble, a cross between muffled mooing and distant foghorns, pierces the heavy air. This is what it sounds like when ...

The four-day camping trip on Santa Cruz Island marks the beginning of a summer chock-full of lessons for future climate ...

Prepare to be left in awe at the sight of the stunning landscapes across the west coast. Most Americans don’t know of the ...

Carrie Towbes George Burtness Carrie Towbes and George Burtness have been selected as the 82nd Persons of the Year for the ...

David Farmer had been hunting vocalizations for the multitudinous “Moria orcs” in the first “Lord of The Rings” movie and “needed something new and cool.” Sightseeing with his wife, Farmer was not ...

In the latest sign that wolves are continuing to make a comeback across California after being hunted ... which was spelled out in a 2016 state wolf conservation plan, because population estimates ...

Osage, Co. (KFOR) – The Oklahoma Nature Conservancy announced this week the arrival of the first bison calf of the year at Tallgrass Prairie Preserve! Nature Conservancy officials say ...

from rocky outcrops home to polar bears in the Arctic to tiny tropical islands to a former British penal colony whose leader is befuddled that it was targeted. The American president rattled ...

I am not referring to Ye, who apparently now buys his clothes at the KKK outlet store. I am referring to an even bigger imbecile who, sadly for the world, is determined to upend trade ...

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SANTA CRUZ — A large northwest swell capsized a boat heading out of Santa Cruz Harbor Thursday evening. Through a multi-agency response, the boat’s operator was rescued, and the vessel ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds variable at 12 to 17 mph (19.3 to 27.4 kph). The overnight low will be 56 °F (13.3 °C). Cloudy with a high of 61 °F (16.1 °C) and a 66% chance of precipitation ...