The Palm Springs Animal Shelter is sounding the alarm about overcrowding that is straining its resources and its volunteers. Adoptions from the shelter are down this year, and it's facing a surge in ...

It is estimated that there are over 2,500 species of palms, yet only one is native to California — Washingtonia filifera, or the California fan palm. How is it that with only one native species ...

Date palms, Queen palms and Mexican fan palms dot our landscape as frequently as sunsets, snowbirds and Arizona Cardinals fans. It's hard to believe they're not indigenous. One native palm ...

Ripening Palm Fruit, hanging in great clusters on California’s native fan palms (Washingtonia filifera), can be seen (and tasted) this month.The black, pea-sized fruit consists of a deliciously ...

The state of California has filed a lawsuit against the city of Norwalk, alleging that the city’s moratorium on new homeless shelters and supportive housing violates several housing laws. “The ...

Towering California Fan Palms shade hikers at the Palm Canyon Trail at Indian Canyons in Palm Springs. (Photo by Nick Agro, Orange County Register/SCNG) ... shelter and the necessities of life.

The other, Senate Bill 1459, would require shelters in counties with more than 400,000 residents to do monthly reporting on their websites regarding intakes, outtakes, euthanization and natural death.

Looking down on the oasis of Washingtonia filifera, or California fan palms, in Palm Canyon. Ellen Albanese for The Boston Globe PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — High above the city, the Indian Canyons ...

The California fan palm, for example, provides up to 100 square feet of shade and consumes an average of 20 gallons of water per day, while the jacaranda tree consumes 5 to 10 gallons of water per ...