On this day in SCV History May 22, 1865, two pioneers Jesus Hernandez and Ramon Perea sold the oil-rich lands of Pico Canyon ...

One of California's largest collections of digitized newspapers, going back nearly 200 years and spanning approximately 54 million articles, could disappear due to gutted state funding. The unexpected ...

Today in SCV history, May 19, 1851 the Los Angeles Court of Sessions declared the road that ran through Rancho San Francisco, ...

The California state park system includes 280 state park units, over 340 miles of coastline, 970 miles of lake and river frontage, 15,000 campsites, 5,200 miles of trails, 3,195 historic buildings, ...

While the Civil War was never fought in California, the state nevertheless played a major role in generating pro-Union ...