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.

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 ...

Rancho Palos Verdes residents get $23 million to stem sliding landscape 02:29. ... The grant from FEMA will help fund a project to stabilize the Portuguese Bend landslide area.

The sliding in the Portuguese Bend area does not seem to be related to several homes in nearby Rolling Hills Estates crumbling into a canyon a few months ago, but they share a cause: both slides are ...

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. Support for LAist comes from ...

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.

Gas service to 135 homes in the Portuguese Bend area of Rancho Palos Verdes, situated on the coastal outskirts of Los Angeles, will end from 9 a.m. local time, the company said.

Since last October, movement of the Portuguese Bend landslide complex has been dramatic. Twidwell said when they first moved into the neighborhood 51 years ago, land in the area was moving at 2 ...

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

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 is clearly on borrowed time. But people are adaptable, especially when there’s this much to lose. Residents ...