Huell Howser is reportedly retiring, without a big announcement. There's a nice collection of videos and appreciations on LA Observed, and I'm reposting our long segment with him, from the glorious ...

Everybody’s favorite public TV personality has been gone a little over a year, and the tributes are still rolling in. This Saturday, Chapman University in Orange honors the late broadcaster with a ...

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Californians who adore road trips, and local characters, and pie shops, and old diners, and long-standing traditions, and everything else that lends the Golden State its quintessential glow, sure do ...

Re: “It’s Amazing!” (Oct. 18): I found the opening line to the Huell Howser piece -- “L.A. loves to hate Huell Howser. . .” -- to be crass and entirely inaccurate. Ninety-nine percent of any Howser ...

(AP) Huell Howser, the homespun host of public television’s popular California’s Gold travelogues, has died at age 67. Howser died at his home Sunday night from natural causes, said Ayn Allen, ...

Huell Howser, folksy enthusiast for all manner of local gems in the Golden State and long the host of travel show “California’s Gold,” died of natural causes in Palm Springs early Monday morning. He ...

Huell Howser fans will celebrate National Donut Day on June 4 with a double feature: first, a private tour of Glendora’s Rubel Castle followed by a visit to the Donut Man, another Glendora institution ...

The final day of the year possesses a good amount of uncynical aspiration, and can-do-ness, too, especially when compared to the other days on the calendar. For it is on the 31st of December when we ...