Hayden Island has borne several names. For four decades, it was best known for the Jantzen Beach amusement park. Today, a spread-out shopping center and residential neighborhood inhabit the same sandy ...

The Astoria chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has announced that Josephine Giles, a student at Lewis and Clark Elementary School, is the fifth-grade winner of the organization’s ...

KEVIN KNODELL / KKNODELL @STARADVERTISER.COM The road through Kolekole Pass is a narrow, winding one-way road up the rugged Waianae Mountains that has been plagued and damaged by rock falls and ...

A new hazardous debris collection site has been established at Will Roger State Beach in Pacific Palisades.

His Forks museum off U.S. 101 houses buckets of debris lost at sea, like the scores of Saki and Suntory whiskey bottles he ...

We figured getting a good marathon in the winter, where we don’t have to feel like it’s winter, is the perfect time to go,” ...

Until now, the military has limited itself to a supporting role at the border: surveilling for illegal crossings by ground ...

Since 2012, at least 13 applications have been submitted for licenses to teach surfing in Newport Beach, but only three have ...

SHI SHI BEACH, Olympic National Park — Celebrated beachcomber John Anderson slowly tilts forward while gulping mouthfuls of ...

SAN DIEGO — Joel Dahmen calls himself a “SEAL junkie.” He’s not talking about marine life. “Anytime there was a documentary out or any of those movies like 'Zero Dark Thirty,' l love watching those," ...

Speaking at the Stimson Center, Christopher Clary, who teaches at the University of Albany, said Washington would be “least conflicted about [the Indian navy ... in the Indo-Pacific to protect ...

Palm Beach County commissioners approved $10 million to build a $60 million mental health facility. The decision follows a controversial move by HCA Florida JFK North Hospital to stop in-patient ...