Avila Beach remains one of California’s best-kept coastal secrets, a charming enclave along the Central Coast where life moves at a pace dictated by tides rather than traffic lights.

The mosaics consist of ceramic tiles surrounded by pebbles. But the pebbles were not collected on the beach, rather ...

The Pentagon increasingly sees the Pacific as its most important theater of operations as tensions brew between the U.S. and China. To that end, the Navy plans to increase training across the vast ...