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Tell someone you’re going hiking, they usually assume you’re heading to the mountains, maybe the coast. But California’s deserts offer sublime hikes. Just…

Special Forces soldier and CIA operative Roberto Cesar Montiel made history for 35 years. Author Jeremy Shonick researched the events of this man's life…

Many people in the North State have walked, or dream of walking, the medieval pilgrimage route across northern Spain to the Cathedral in Santiago de…

Award-winning cameraman and producer Tim Ortman has written a memoir about his years working overseas for NBC when TV news reporting was at its zenith.…

This week we’re going coastal again. Winter is a great time to go to the coast, for many reasons. Fewer people, so you can appreciate landscapes and towns…

This week we head up the road to again explore the California coast—this time on foot, by bike and wheelchair, and on horseback. We Californians love our…

“Executive Directive 51,” signed by President George W. Bush on May 4, 2007, establishes a policy on the continuity of government structures in the event…

Chico author Athena Demetrios had a 30-year career as a makeup artist in the film industry in Los Angeles. She was traumatized by memories of growing up…

We’ve been exploring California as a place created, almost overnight, by the accidental discovery of gold in 1848, which brought tens of thousands of…

Jonathan Balcombe is a biologist and animal behavior expert. In his bestseller endorsed by the Dalai Lama, What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our…