Sprouts are budding where not too long ago burned vegetation filled the hillsides after the Franklin and Palisades fires.

After experiencing five earthquakes since mid-February, the Malibu area felt a few more over the weekend. The first quake, a magnitude 2.9, occurred at 3:35 p.m., 17 miles south of Malibu.

California State Parks and the National Park Service — which manage over half of the Santa Monica Mountains National ...