Tyrone Beason

Morning light glows on the Chuckwalla Mountains. President Joe Biden established Chuckwalla National Monument, protecting over 600,000 acres of public lands in the California desert.

| Unprecedented coalition will co-manage Chuckwalla National Monument, a California desert cultural landscape - TYRONE BEASON

Morning light glows on the Chuckwalla Mountains. President Joe Biden established Chuckwalla National Monument, protecting over 600,000 acres of public lands in the California desert.

| A health food oasis grows in an area neglected by big grocery chains. - BY TYRONE BEASON

Olympia Auset opened Süprmarkt, a nonprofit organic grocer on Slauson Avenue, after starting it as a pop-up in 2016, serving underserved South L.A. residents. The nonprofit celebrates Black culture and community wellness through an Afrocentric marketplace where customers discover new ways to think about food and healthcare.

To help the public process the January wildfires, artist Evan Hall created a memorial made of salvaged chimneys from destroyed homes.

LOS ANGELES -- High above Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Kraig Hill stood on a concrete slab and gave a tour of a home that is no longer there. Destroyed in the January wildfires, the home Hill grew up in now exists only as a blueprint in his mind.

Passing cars are few along a stretch of historic Route 66 in the ghostly crossroads of Amboy in the Mojave Desert, about an hour north of Joshua Tree National Park.

Passing cars are few along a stretch of historic Route 66 in the ghostly crossroads of Amboy in the Mojave Desert about an hour north of Joshua Tree National Park.