After almost two years of unprecedented landslide damage in the Portuguese Bend area, city officials want to permanently ban ...

Residents get to weigh in at a town hall Wednesday on what could be a controversial designation in the Portuguese Bend area.

Some homes in the Portuguese Bend area have traveled 400 to 500 feet since then – longer than the length of a football field. “There’s a guy who’s got a house down here near the pony club and his ...

A decades-long landslide has reshaped a 240-acre part of Palos Verdes Peninsula known as Portuguese Bend. Rancho Palos Verdes is mounting a plan to slow it.

Portuguese Bend has been sliding for over half a century. The area is part of the larger ancient landslide zone that comprises the southern section of the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

The neighborhood above the Pacific Ocean started sliding slowly in the 1970s about 20 years after the land started slipping in the Portuguese Bend area. Now, it's going at an alarming pace.

The Portuguese Bend landslide emergency response is projected to reach approximately $43.6 million beginning in October 2022 through June 2025.

How we got here: According to research from the Cal State Dominguez Hills, the Portuguese Bend landslide has been moving for more than 250,000 years.But the more aggressive movement started after ...

Sheri Hastings puts a 5-and-a-half-foot pole down into a fissure created by slide movement at her home in Portuguese Bend in Rancho Palos Verdes on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. (Photo by Dean Musgrove ...

Sallie Reeves inspects damage to her house, which is sliding in the Portuguese Bend area of Rancho Palos Verdes. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times ...

The Portuguese Bend landslide was triggered in the summer of 1956 — nearly two decades before Rancho Palos Verdes became a city — when a Los Angeles County road crew was constructing an ...

A decades-long landslide has reshaped a 240-acre part of Palos Verdes Peninsula known as Portuguese Bend. Rancho Palos Verdes is mounting a plan to slow it.