Salton Sea

There is something majestic about the Salton Sea, one of the world’s largest inland seas and lowest spots on earth at -227 below sea level. The people who live there know its majesty on a daily basis. So do the thousands of Coachella Valley visitors, Instagrammers, and lookie -loos who drive about three hours southeast of Los Angeles see...

Authorities arrested four men suspected in an operation to use an ultralight to fly nearly 200 pounds (90 kilograms) of methamphetamine into Southern California from Mexico, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday. The arrests before dawn Friday came after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents detected the glider-like aircraft crossing into the U.S. from Calexico, Mexico, according to a...

An odor advisory first issued more than a week ago due to elevated levels of hydrogen sulfide wafting up from the Salton Sea, which is creating a smell similar to rotten eggs in the Coachella Valley, has been extended again.

An odor advisory has been issued for the Coachella Valley area of Southern California because of naturally occurring processes in the Salton Sea that produce a gas with a rotten egg smell.

KMIR NBC Palm Springs reporter Luzdelia Caballero had a giant rattlesnake photo bomb her report near the Salton Sea on Wednesday.

State agricultural authorities are further restricting movement of birds as they work to eradicate virulent Newcastle disease from a large area of Southern California.

A voluntary evacuation order was issued Monday for residents living in the Cranston Fire burn area due to thunderstorm conditions stemming from Hurricane Rosa, with flood and mudslide risks exacerbated by hillsides stripped of vegetation by the arson-caused blaze.

Once considered pipe dreams, the concept of saving the Salton Sea by tapping ocean water from Mexico, to keep the accidental salt lake from drying up, will get an official consideration at two meetings in the desert this week.

California voters have approved a ballot measure allowing the state borrow $4 billion for parks and conservation projects that proponents say will help ensure access to clean drinking water.

Californians are voting Tuesday on proposals to let the state borrow $4 billion for parks and conservation projects and change how revenues are allocated from its cap-and-trade pollution program.

California State Park Rangers and a deputy search and rescue team discovered a body in Ocotillo Wells State Park Friday about 24 hours after a man was reported missing in the area.

Four separate earthquakes shook the Ocotillo Wells area on Saturday evening with the largest of the tremors measuring 3.5-magnitude.