Rick Aldinger News Today

Beginning at 6:30 a.m. Friday, Caltrans will reopen this portion of roadway using a 24/7 signalized traffic control system to provide temporary unrestricted flow with one-way alternating access for vehicles in both directions.

Rain is here again but Highway 1 in Big Sur remains closed to through traffic

Forecasters say the storm could bring heavy rain and flash flooding to Southern California, beginning as soon as Saturday morning.

Saturday will mark seven years since the Soberanes Fire burned more than 130,000 acres.

No one knows why — or who — first put the chairs in the water. They just know that at one point, someone sitting by the banks of the Big Sur River took an Adirondack chair from the hotel’s furnishings and put it right into the current. Lounging in one, with your bare feet resting on the smooth rocks as the cool river water washes over them, is now something that’s a decades-old tradition at the Big Sur River Inn. If you didn’t do it during your stay, you might as well have not stayed t...

Driving Highway 1 through Big Sur is one of the most amazing things you can do in California, with hints of history to be found along the way

Driving this stretch of Highway 1 is still one of the most amazing things you can do in California. Here's how to find hints of history along the way.