According to data released by travel industry nonprofit Visit California, and collected by Dean Runyan Associates, the Golden State’s tourism economy generated $150.4 billion in travel spending for 2023, up from the previous record of $144.9 billion in 2019 — the year before the COVID-19 pandemic led Gov. Gavin Newsom to lock everything down.

California remains the 5th largest economy in the world for the seventh consecutive year, and California’s per capita GDP is the second largest among large economies.

Jake and Callum Robinson from Australia and American Jack Carter Rhoad were shot in the head, their bodies dumped in a covered well miles away.

Two Australians and an American were doing what they loved on the stunning, largely isolated stretch of Baja California’s Pacific coast.

The bodies of three surfers who went missing in April in Baja California on vacation were positively identified by authorities on Sunday, the state's attorney general said.