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Ski reports and forecasts for Southern California and the West

Ski reports and forecasts for Southern California and the West

First, a little question: Does anybody hedge their bets the way a weather forecaster does? Predictions for this winter call for another La...

At Mammoth Lakes, snowshoeing and teens are a good mix

At Mammoth Lakes, snowshoeing and teens are a good mix

Mom: "OK, let's go. Time to try something different — we're going snowshoeing this afternoon."

Kern County's rich oil field of history

Kern County's rich oil field of history

Anywhere else, linking an aromatic cup of coffee and a gooey glob of oil would quickly kill a restaurant.

 Hotels get into beekeeping business

Hotels get into beekeeping business

— Thanksgiving dinner guests at Carmel Valley Ranch can expect the Central California resort to serve a honey of a meal.

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What you need to know about the laws that just went into effect.

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Check out SoCal's sizzling real estate buys, condos to estates.

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Old Sacramento gives up some watery secrets during tour

Old Sacramento gives up some watery secrets during tour

Reporting from Sacramento—Old Sacramento creates a convincing picture of life in the Old West. Historic storefronts line lumpy brick...

San Francisco's over-the-top underground

San Francisco's over-the-top underground

San Francisco isn't really an underground kind of place. We don't go in for noir the way L.A. does. And unlike New York, we don't...

Hot tips on California's premier racetracks

Hot tips on California's premier racetracks

California is home to more racetracks than any other state, with four dominant tracks and a dozen lesser venues, such as state fairs,...

Convict Lake worth going on the lam for a getaway

Convict Lake worth going on the lam for a getaway

My brother, John, tried to sleep during the boring part of the three-hour trip from Los Angeles to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra.

San Francisco literary festival Litquake just keeps growing

San Francisco literary festival Litquake just keeps growing

You can't throw a New Yorker magazine in San Francisco without hitting a writer. This fog-bound city might be more famous for steep hills...

Forks of the Kern: A Calif. river's proving ground

Forks of the Kern: A Calif. river's proving ground

The Forks of the Kern, where the rapids line up one after another — as white as your mother's wedding dress — is among the finer...

San Francisco: Delancey Street Restaurant offers second chances

San Francisco: Delancey Street Restaurant offers second chances

As I ponder the most beautiful places I've visited in America, my head fills with visions of the rocky Maine coast in summer, when long days...

Southern California Close-Ups: A step-by-step guide to the South Bay

Southern California Close-Ups: A step-by-step guide to the South Bay

We'll call the movie "Three Beaches and an Airport." It'll star Hugh Grant as a buttoned-up business traveler who is separated from his job,...

Monterey's a family-friendly destination

Monterey's a family-friendly destination

After a long car ride, my wife and I stopped at Lovers Point Park in Pacific Grove to let our 4-year-old daughter, Ediza, release some...

Slowing down in Big Sur

Slowing down in Big Sur

Until recently, my relationship with central California's magnificent Big Sur coast was all about the drive. Ninety-three miles of...

Diving around the scuttled Yukon off of San Diego

Diving around the scuttled Yukon off of San Diego

The last time I saw the Yukon, a 366-foot-long Canadian navy destroyer, it was docked in San Diego. So many holes had been cut in the...

Hiking where locomotives once chugged

Hiking where locomotives once chugged

Jogging along the Whittier Greenway Trail is traversing a corridor of history, a trip through an era when citrus trees bloomed — and...

San Francisco's Valencia Street on bicycle

San Francisco's Valencia Street on bicycle

Nobody does hip like the bicyclists of San Francisco's Mission District.

On a pilgrimage to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest

On a pilgrimage to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest

The White Mountains that straddle the California-Nevada border are known for their extreme environment. They get less than a foot of rain...

11 micro-itineraries for Long Beach, San Pedro and Catalina Island

11 micro-itineraries for Long Beach, San Pedro and Catalina Island

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International visitors' favorite places to visit in the U.S.

International visitors' favorite places to visit in the U.S.

Whether you're shopping at Tiffany, contemplating the Liberty Bell, hiking in Yosemite National Park or throwing dice inLas Vegas, odds...

It's worth stopping along California 99

It's worth stopping along California 99

Call it the accidental road trip. Looking for a less monotonous route home from Northern California last summer, my family and I took...

Enjoying California's volcanic legacy

Enjoying California's volcanic legacy

The Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway yawns languidly for 500 miles from the southern reaches of California's Cascade Range to lower Oregon....

Bigfoot was here — maybe

Bigfoot was here — maybe

Full disclosure: I am no Bigfoot junkie. In fact, before strapping my mom, my 3-year-old and myself in the car and traveling north on U.S....

Far from the crowd in Yosemite

Far from the crowd in Yosemite

It is not the profusion of wild flowers, the gently swaying grasses or the golden sun on Half Dome that brings most people to Yosemite in...