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Forever Balboa Park offers thematic park tours that focus on the park’s unique biodiversity and highlight the park’s horticultural wonders on the second Saturday of each month. Led by park volunteer and horticultural enthusiast Bill Edwards, the free tours leave from the Visitors Center at 10:00 a.m. Modeled after a famous garden in Seville, Spain, Balboa Park’s historic Alcazar Garden features regularly changing floral displays, colorful tile work, box hedged walkways, a pergola, and two fountains. The entire garden is nicely shaded by a variety of trees from around the world, including the massive fig tree towering over one of the most photographed areas in the park. Stay Connected on Social Media Facebook + Twitter + Instagram

Join 17,000+ attendees for a free, all ages, family-friendly community giving movement event. Enjoy a whole day of surf contest, live concerts on the beach with Grammy award-winning rock band Switchfoot and special guests, brand activations, food and retail vendors, green initiatives, and more. Surf contests will be held from 7 a.m. – 3 p.m., with local talent musical performances from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., followed by the Switchfoot performance from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. Donations are warmly welcomed at the event, as well as online, to support local youth charities. To learn more and register, visit www.broam.org. Switchfoot Bro-Am on Facebook

Every year, the Librarian of Congress selects 25 movies to be added to the National Film Registry. This year, the list included Home Alone and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

An outbreak of Arctic air brought harsh weather of all kinds from blizzards to snow and sleet. Forecasters say the extreme cold will continue into the week in the Midwest and the South.

Las normas de seguridad en el lugar de trabajo de California para la protección del calor interior tienen un retraso de cinco años y la administración de Newsom quería retrasarlas nuevamente por preocupaciones sobre los costos de las prisiones estatales. Pero la junta de seguridad se rebeló y aprobó las reglas de todos modos.

Thousands see the tree each year as they walk along Hadrian's Wall, which guarded the Roman Empire's northwestern frontier. It appeared in Kevin Costner's 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.

Baby boomers are entering older age amid a historic affordable-housing shortage and widening inequality. A new study warns many won't be able to access the kind of housing or caregiving they need.

Brian Beals was convicted in the 1988 murder of a 6-year-old. At the time, Beals, a 22-year-old student at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, was home in Chicago during Thanksgiving break.

New Jersey is known as the "diner capital of the world." But as more diners close, the ones that remain need to adapt to survive.

Prosecutors also announced Friday they had issued arrest warrants in the case against 83 army members, local officials, local police officers and state police, as well as gang members.