Laylan Connelly

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When a fire is raging, it’s a race against time.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When it rains, it pours – and flushes pollution straight into local waters.

When it rains, it pours — and flushes pollution straight into local waters

Debbie Friedman, who guarded San Clemente and Huntington state beaches, is hosting two book signings in coming days.

Cada vez que llueve, la basura es arrastrada a través de los desagües pluviales y las cunetas hacia los ríos, y de allí, río abajo, va a parar directamente al océano y a las playas.

A sneak peek at the menu shows everything from buttery lobster rolls and chowder to Baja-style tacos to beignets and “Shark Bite” shave ice. There will also be supplies for anglers.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A recent bird sighting suspected to be a Lesser Frigatebird — not a species known to live anywhere

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Face the shark, don’t turn your back. Avoid splashing frantically in fear.

State Parks is hosting its annual Grunion Run Night on June 2, a chance learn about and hopefully see the unusual spawning at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point.

The mural outside of Crown Ace Hardware in Corona del Mar of Duke Kahanamoku honors the surfer who helped save fisherman off a capsized boat off the Newport Harbor entrance.