As a ferocious, multiday winter storm begins to subside after delivering heavy snow and ice to a large swath of the country this week and leaving thousands without power in the Midwest, another storm is threatening rain and snow in the West Friday, prompting rare blizzard warnings in Southern California.
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A gray whale was spotted in the water close to the shore of Pacific Beach Wednesday morning. According to experts at SeaWorld, the whale is swimming in the shallow waters as a way to play and have fun. The whale was first spotted around 11 a.m. Whale watching season is in its peak right now […]
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Hurricane Willa has grown rapidly into an “extremely dangerous” Category 5 storm in the eastern Pacific, on a path to smash into Mexico’s western coast between Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta by Wednesday. Willa has maximum sustained winds of 160 mph (260 kph) — a faster windspeed than Hurricane Michael had at landfall in Florida — […]
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A stretch of iconic Highway 1 in the scenic Big Sur coastal region that was blocked last year by a massive landslide is back open. The California Department of Transportation said the road that connects Los Angeles to San Francisco was reopened to all travelers by midmorning. Caltrans tweeted: “#Hwy1 at Mud Creek south of #BigSur […]
