Its unforgiving course winds through the scorching hot desert of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. Racers have to navigate everything from steep mountain passes to thick sand, and they use ...

Santa Ana winds are gusting at more than 80 mph early Wednesday combined with low relative humidity, creating elevated fire danger. Fires and smoke have spread throughout southern California.

Once found in large numbers from Monterey to San Diego and northern Baja California, arroyo toads have disappeared ... protecting one of the few remaining toad populations within the California Desert ...