Moviemaking with the Mulleavy sisters.

Millions of dollars worth of nuts are disappearing in California.

The underground culture of big waves and wild times in 1961 Malibu, and the gang of teenage boys who worshiped at the feet of the beach’s dark prince, surfing legend and grifter Miki Dora.

Alan Young has been running the same scam for years: posing as a member of The Temptations and smooth-talking his way into luxury hotel rooms and prostitutes. Despite his clear charm, he admits he has “no skills other than being a con man.”

The impact of a life map and a stipend on those in the gang life in Richmond, CA.

On a mysterious migrant in a San Diego hospital bed, and the thousands of families who hope that he’s theirs.

The dream of getting from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 35 minutes has run into a few speed bumps.

She was the Southern Californian PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her?

On Lucille Miller, who in San Bernadino in 1964 was convicted of burning her husband to death in his Volkswagen.

Are megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick visionary philanthropists or shrewd water barons?

Forgiveness and the lives of two young men caught in Stockton street gangs.

The author investigates the massive wildlife die-off in the Salton Sea by rafting from its tributaries in Mexico.

Over four months, a methane well in southern California’s Aliso Canyon leaked Lebanon’s equivalent of yearly emissions into the atmosphere. No one knows what the long-term effects will be.

In the middle of a new drought, looking back at a drowned California town.

Dr. Joel Dreyer was a respected psychiatrist. Then he took a sudden turn to a life of drug dealing. Medicine might be able to explain why.

On the underground economy of full-service Southern California apartment complexes marketed to Chinese birth-tourists.

On seaweed.

The “zone of sacrifice” that is Oxnard, California, where low-income workers are paying the price for pesticide use and chemical dumping.

It takes a gallon of water to grow a single almond. Yet in drought-ravaged California, hedge funds are racing to plant as many new trees as they can.

The eccentric inhabitants of the world’s largest rock—Giant Rock, a humongous boulder deep in the Mojave Desert.

To be a foreigner is to be perpetually detached, but it is also to be continually surprised.

Scenes from the California drought.

On the palm trees of Los Angeles.

Life on a weed farm in Humboldt County.