Drummond: Putting the spectacular in Yorba Linda’s July 4 fireworks show

Yorba Linda’s most-watched civic event – the July 4 fireworks display – has an interesting history. Equally interesting is ...

July in Philly has become 4.4 degrees hotter since 1940 on average. Nights are even warmer.

Philadelphians sweated through Julys in the 1940s, brooding over World War II as temperatures averaged in the mid-to-upper ...

SoCal boy was killed by massive tree branch at summer camp; $19.3-million settlement reached

A year after a tree branch fell at a Calabasas summer camp and killed a camper, the child's family has reached a settlement with three organizations totaling almost $20 million.
Field Museum

This pinecone-looking animal is the world’s most-trafficked mammal. New analysis of its DNA and a rebuilt family tree could help save it from poaching.

We can’t protect what we do not know, and now that we have confirmed that this other species of pangolin exists, we can use ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

San Diego Union-Tribune

City makes explicit a 12-month timeframe required for the lender-turned-developer to complete $5 million in improvements. Kelly Davis, intrepid reporter who exposed death and despair in San Diego ...

Photo of the day: 100th annual Stoughton Fair

Avery Sime, 11, with Rutland 4-H, pets her Yorkshire gilt pig, Ethel, during the first day of the 100th annual Stoughton Fair at Mandt Park in Stoughton, Wis. Wednesday, July 1, 2026. AMBER ARNOLD, ...