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 ...

Huell Howser exposed Orange Countians (and other Californians) to the Golden State’s great parks (and beaches and lakes and mountains and rivers and etc., etc., etc.). So, it is only fitting that the ...

Huell Howser, the public television travel icon beloved around California (and well beyond), passed away four years ago this month. But his many fans pay tribute to his memory by revisiting his on-the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Somewhere out there, there’s got to be an outtake reel of film that reveals a very different Huell Howser. Not the relentlessly sunny host of KCET’s “Road Trip,” but someone who screams at the ...

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 ...

(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, ...

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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 ...