Older Phoenix residents might recall memories of driving along Baseline Road in the late 1960s and the mile-long stretches of vibrant flower fields that once flourished at the base of South Mountain.

The real estate standoff on a windswept spit of land in industrial North Richmond, Calif., had the makings of one of those bitter and protracted battles in which community well-being was once again at ...

A bit of Palos Verdes Peninsula history will soon go away. During the first half of the 20th century, farms run by Japanese Americans blanketed the Peninsula — until World War II and the U.S. policy ...