The Salton Sea spans across southern Riverside and northern Imperial counties in Southern California on the Pacific Flyway.

Decades ago, the Salton Sea was one of California's most beloved tourist destinations, attracting the likes of Frank Sinatra, ...

California officials sent water flowing to create new wetlands along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea. The project is ...

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 ...

Southern California's Salton Sea is drying up and that may be delaying the region's next big earthquake. Researchers say the lack of water is reducing stress on the San Andreas fault.

Salton Sea's crashing ecosystem. Like scanning a dying roadside motel for signs of life, scientists in recent years had increasingly despaired of finding major bird life at the ever-saltier, ever ...

Shrinking Salton Sea raises health alarms for surrounding community 02:36. Salton City, California — Damien Lopez, age 4, has symptoms that many people who live near Southern California's Salton ...

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 skirt Joshua Tree National Park to ...

At 35 miles long and 15 miles wide, the Salton Sea is California’s largest lake. Its most recent incarnation formed in 1905, when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal and millions of ...

To mitigate the Salton Sea's receding shoreline, California's Natural Resource Agency is considering eleven proposals to import water from elsewhere. ... Most were Southern California-based.

After years of delays, the California Department of Water Resources and its contractors have almost completed 4,000 acres of potential wetland at the sea's southern end — that’s bigger than ...