Jim Jones, a charismatic preacher and cult leader, led a group of people to Guyana to worship him and his false teachings. It ...

Where the West Fork of the Sespe Creek converges with the Sespe River, there’s a sharp oxbow bend, a significant curvature ...

While sites at some private campgrounds in the western U.S. can cost upwards of $100 per night, Chisum says they are proud to ...

Backpacking from Mexico to Oregon on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1985, we passed through fields of flowers. Splashes of cactus ...

Barbara Brown, who serves on the VBG board and is an artist as well, participated in this year’s Plein Air Paint Out and ...

Oh, those Southern writers. Harper Lee, Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty — the list is quite long. And now, to a cast of famous Southern playwrights like Tennessee Williams ...

The original Earth Day celebration, on April 22, 1970, was organized in response to a disaster off our coast. In 1969, an oil platform’s spill in the Santa Barbara Channel ...

Architects Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene designed some of the most famous homes in the U.S., including the Gamble House, a National Historic Landmark mansion in Pasadena known as a ...

The White House recently issued an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. If enacted, this decision would roll back decades of progress in ensuring equal access to quality ...

Thousands gathered at the Ventura County Government Center on Saturday, April 5, in protest of President Donald Trump’s second administration. They joined people across the United States in over 1,300 ...

Several thousand Ventura County residents took to the streets in Ventura, Thousand Oaks and Ojai on Saturday, April 5, to oppose the policies and actions of President Donald Trump. Protestors at over ...

When you’ve grown up playing Celtic music, and your band is driven by its joyful energy, how can your life not be exuberant and fun-filled? Welcome to the world of Scottish Fish, the all-women’s ...