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Hay for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study
With chronic water shortages afflicting the Colorado River, discussions about how to cut usage have increasingly...
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State Farm won't renew 72,000 insurance policies in California
The California homeowners’ insurance crisis reached another critical stage this week when State Farm General Insurance...
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LAPD warns about WiFi jamming burglars disabling home security systems
File image of a Ring doorbell camera. The LAPD has put out an advisory on burglars...
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Sophisticated 'burglary tourists' fly from S America to rob wealthy homes – LAPD
In the desert around Scottsdale, Ariz., on Monday, police officers hunted for a member of an...
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Job growth is booming across the U.S. but not in California. Here's why
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers continued hiring new workers at a brisk pace last month, providing fresh...
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California EV sales are falling
After years of rapid expansion, California’s booming EV market may be showing signs of fatigue as...
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California's war on plastic bag use seems to have backfired
It was a decade ago when California became the first state in the nation to ban...
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Why diets backfire: A year after weight loss, the desire to eat grows stronger
Losing weight is, for most people, the easy part. The bigger challenge is trying to keep...
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Taggers have sprayed graffiti on 27 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper
From a parking lot on the corner of 12th and Figueroa streets, Michael Lopez carefully commandeered...
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Biden's Western solar plan sounds scary. But it's better than climate change
A single federal agency oversees nearly a quarter-billion acres of public lands — and those acres...
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A Bad Day for Tech: 31,000 Jobs Slashed (2001)
A host of beleaguered technology companies announced a staggering 31,000 worldwide job cuts Thursday, marking one...
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L.A. is being 'stripped for parts.' Here's what the City wants to do about it
Copper wire thefts have plagued Los Angeles for years, posing safety hazards and costing the city...
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That pain in your back? It's a pain in your brain
As a chronic pain sufferer, I sometimes surprise people by telling them that my pain doesn’t...
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The lithium revolution has arrived at California's Salton Sea
I’m finally convinced: California’s Imperial Valley will be a major player in the clean energy transition.After...
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Why are so many EV charging stations broken in California?
Doug McCune of Oakland was set to buy an electric car, a Mustang Mach-E. The paperwork...
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Margaret Mead wanted to save the world via LSD. The government had other ideas
Benjamin Breen, a young historian at UC Santa Cruz, has written a gripping new book that...
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Nation's largest single-family home landlord to pay $3.7M in CA gouging case
The nation’s largest landlord of single-family home rentals will pay $3.7 million in civil penalties and...
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Why pushing STEM majors is turning out to be a terrible investment
Republicans and Democrats don’t seem to agree on much these days. But despite the gridlock in...
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UCLA will transform dead Westside mall into major science innovation center
The former Westside Pavilion, a long shuttered indoor mall, will be transformed into a UCLA biomedical...
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Space shuttle Endeavour's giant orange external tank begins final journey
At long last, the final journey of the last space shuttle ever built, Endeavour, and its...
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Can a pill prevent deaths from venomous snakebites?
SAN FRANCISCO — John Heenan knows the terror of feeling a sting on his foot, then...