A black bear caught in a natural area of the western Santa Monica Mountains on April 23, 2023, south of the 101 Freeway in the Los Angeles area. National Park Service via AP This is the first time ...

Park rangers for the Santa Monica Mountains are on the hunt for a “promposal” vandal, who scrawled a prom invitation on a rock near Sandstone Peak — the second year in a row the same message ...

National park officials believe P-22 came from the Santa Monica Mountains and somehow navigated the busy freeways. "He had to have crossed the 101 and 405 freeways to get to Griffith Park ...

For the first time, the National Park Service has captured and GPS radio-collared a black bear in the Santa Monica Mountains. The 210-pound male bear, dubbed BB-12, was captured April 23 in a ...

Biologists from the National Park Service are tracking an adult black bear that is believed to be the only bear living in the Santa Monica Mountains. The three or four-year-old black bear ...

The Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore will once again be having its Art in the Park art show supporting the Palisades Village Green and local and national conservation ...

On Saturday, the unidentified victim, 41, began hiking at about 8 a.m. and suffered a heat-related death while on the trails of Tapia Park ... the Santa Monica Mountains trails were shut down ...

The only known black bear in the Santa ... Monica Mountains before, but are considered rare: In the early aughts, a dead black bear was found under a landslide in Malibu Creek State Park.

Residents who live near the Santa Monica Mountains say the area is being used ... for all until it can be transferred to the National Park Service for protection and stewardship." ...

That includes about eight workers from the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and six workers from Channel Islands National Park. Park rangers fired from the Santa Monica Mountains ...