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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is a global event in the California desert every April, but a couple hours south in Orange County, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam has established a beach ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. San Francisco, CA – Today, California State Parks Foundation released a new analysis of data that confirms the importance of ...

Last weekend, Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival returned to Doheny State Park in Dana Point, Ca., for the seventh year. Located adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, Ohana continues to be one of the more unique ...

Starting Monday, enough sand to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools are being brought to South Orange County to replenish the shorelines at Doheny State Beach and Capistrano Beach Park. Why it ...