Land movement has taken a heavy toll on the area’s main thoroughfare. The city plans to study the idea of a toll road but ...

NASA imagery shows that land was sliding at a rate of 4 inches a week during a four-week period last year. Portuguese Bend is clearly on borrowed time. But people are adaptable, especially when ...

Sheri Hastings' property sits on a slow-moving disaster; a complex of landslides in the Portuguese Bend area of Rancho Palos Verdes, California. For nearly 70 years, this area has shifted roughly ...

NASA imagery shows that land was sliding at a rate of 4 inches a week during a four-week period last year. Portuguese Bend is clearly on borrowed time. But people are adaptable, especially when ...

Mike Phipps, a geologist who has been studying the shifting landscape for nearly four decades, was contracted by the city to monitor the movement. A major part of the city’s approach to slow the ...