There I was, staring up at a quarter-mile-high fold of sand that looked like it was the backdrop of a science fiction novel. It looked like CGI but it was real, and so far out in the desert that even ...

With some beaches in San Clemente so barren from erosion that waves crash up against passing trains, transportation officials are urgently looking to add sand to their plans to protect the troubled ...

Sand is being shipped from a quarry in Palm Springs to San Clemente’s North Beach, a test case to see how the desert grains hold up at the shore. The Orange County Transportation Authority’s initial ...