Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then skirt Joshua Tree National Park to cruise ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — A section of the Salton Sea was hit by a 4.6 magnitude earthquake Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred at 10:26 a.m. in a southern part ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. When Sonia Herbert, 78, opened a restaurant in Bombay Beach, a small California neighborhood about 80 miles northeast of San Diego, she welcomed the bustle ...

If you like the phrase "apocalyptic beauty," you may consider a trip to the Salton Sea. In this remote corner of Southern California, treeless mountains are reflected in the sea's glassy waters. A ...

6:46 p.m. May 27, 2025: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to double-crested cormorants as double-breasted cormorants. Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of ...

When Sonia Herbert, 78, opened a restaurant in Bombay Beach, a small California neighborhood about 80 miles northeast of San Diego, she welcomed the bustle of tourists and locals visiting the Salton ...

SALTON SEA, Calif. (FOX 5/ KUSI) — “I can experience minor hallucinations,” said Irondad, while describing his trek around the edge of the mystical Salton Sea. He’s an activist, artist and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Salton Sea, once a resort destination ...

A dried-up former boating dock is seen along the Salton Sea July 14, 2021, in Desert Shores, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) SAN DIEGO (CN) — Back in 2003, farmers in California's Imperial ...

LOS ANGELES – Water began flowing from a pipe onto hundreds of acres of dry, sunbaked lake bed as California officials filled a complex of shallow ponds near the south shore of the Salton Sea in an ...