Tyrone Beason

Chuckwalla National Monument, one of America's newest protected public lands, is more than an epic expanse of towering rocks, hidden canyons, ghost flowers, smoke trees and its namesake lizard.

| A career fair for middle schoolers mixes learning and fun to cultivate interest. - BY TYRONE BEASON

Nonprofits in Orange County say the youths they work with face greater stress during holiday breaks because of hunger and other needs.

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.