The retiring cookies follow the Raspberry Rally, which appeared in 2022 and discontinued in 2023. The Girl Scout cookie season will be from Jan. 12 through March 2. The Girl Scout council in the Southwest partners with businesses that allow Girl Scouts to sell cookies outside their storefronts.

Flying south through smoky skies down the famous Malibu coast, at first the burnt-out mansions are the exception -- solitary wrecks, smoldering away between rows of intact, gleaming beachfront villas.Where row upon row of family homes once stood, all that remain are occasional chimneys, blackened tree stumps and charred timber.