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On the eastern shore of California’s Salton Sea, the largest lake in the state, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then ...

SALTON SEA, Calif. — In a state boasting epic mountain ranges and stunning coastlines, the Salton Sea is not typically considered an outdoor-lover’s paradise. California’s largest inland lake, which ...

Bombay Beach, a thriving lakeside town in the 50s, started to decay along with the Salton Sea in the 90s. Today, its ruins ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Haze hung over the Salton Sea on a recent winter day, while black-necked stilts and kildeer waded in the shallows, ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story was updated to correct a misspelling and a typo.) On a recent toasty morning at the edge of California's largest lake, Samantha Arthur stood half a mile ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the sweltering Coachella Valley, community advocates are calling for the state to transform its recreation area at the Salton ...

Home to only 150 or so people most of the year, the Salton Sea in southern California —”created by the collision of geology and bad luck”—swells to 4,000 during the winter as people come to escape the ...

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