In 1972, biology teachers at Newport Harbor High School and local volunteer groups created a living nature laboratory out of soil dumped during the construction of the school’s Olympic-sized swimming pool. Fifty years later, the Environmental Nature Center has blossomed ...

Mother Nature has been challenging lately for volunteer-minded employees of Southern California Edison. COVID-19 forced many philanthropic events to be canceled or restricted. Then, in January, a scheduled cleanup of the Upper Newport Bay estuary in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday was postponed because of the threat of a tsunami. A month later, more than 50 SCE volunteers ...

The mural on the wall outside of ASANA Acadamies in Compton was defaced by graffiti, covered up by solid sheets of paint and overgrown with vines. That’s before about three dozen volunteers from Southern California Edison arrived on a recent Saturday morning ...