There I was, staring up at a quarter-mile-high fold of sand that looked like it was the backdrop of a science fiction novel. It looked like CGI but it was real, and so far out in the desert that even ...

Sand is being shipped from a quarry in Palm Springs to San Clemente’s North Beach, a test case to see how the desert grains hold up at the shore. The Orange County Transportation Authority’s initial ...

A community outcry against big boulders being placed on the beach in San Clemente grew louder Thursday evening, with a crowd calling for the use of more sand as a buffer as the Orange County ...

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More than 300 truckloads of sand from a quarry near Palm Springs are being delivered to a San Clemente beach this week as part of emergency efforts to protect the coastal tracks that are San Diego ...

In a clash of old and new industries, Wisconsin frac sand producers say their business is threatened by a handful of railroads operating under outdated regulations. Wisconsin produces about a third of ...

Orange County officials are moving forward with a series of projects to stabilize a stretch of coastal railway through San Clemente despite environmental critics saying the “haphazard” measures will ...