For years, the water table has been dropping beneath thousands of acres of desert farmland in western Arizona, where a Saudi-owned dairy company has been allowed to pump…
Read more Arizona draws a line on groundwater use after letting Saudi-owned company pump freely for yearsVICKSBURG, Ariz. — Lush green fields of alfalfa spread across thousands of acres in a desert valley in western Arizona, where a dairy company from Saudi Arabia grows the thirsty…
Read more Where a Saudi company pumps desert groundwater, Arizona considers imposing limitsThe coastal city of El Segundo is an unlikely location for a massive, new artificial surf park. Other California surf parks with machine-powered wave pools are inland, far…
Read more Big wave machine — by the sea — rolling into El SegundoWE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS. SHOW YOU MORE OF THAT FIRE IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY. FIREFIGHTERS ARE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS, BUT YOU CAN SEE IT HAS DESTROYED STRUCTURES…
Read more Coches Fire: Evacuations ordered for fire in San Diego County that burned homesThe Trump administration on Wednesday took formal steps to rescind a decades-old rule that protects 58.5 million acres of wild areas in national forests, including 4.4 million acres…
Read more Trump administration presses rollback of ‘Roadless Rule’ on wildlandsCharges have officially been filed after 21 dogs were found dead at a boarding facility in Argyle, New York.Robert and Anastasia Palulis, the owners of Anastasia’s Acres, are…
Read more Charges filed against owners of New York boarding facility after 21 dogs found deadIn L.A.’s jam-packed real estate market, an acre is huge. Five acres is a dream. But 100-plus acres is historic. The Robert Taylor Ranch, a massive equestrian estate…
Read more 112 acres in Brentwood: Largest estate in decades goes on L.A. market for $70 millionThe UCLA baseball team was cleared to resume using its baseball stadium at noon Tuesday after a judge temporarily lifted an order barring the team from the stadium…
Read more Judge allows UCLA baseball team to return to Jackie Robinson StadiumThey are sprawling lands of seemingly endless vistas and soaring plateaus. The red canyons are sprinkled with ancient rock art and historic Indigenous settlements. Normally nonconfrontational paleontologists were…
Read more Trump downsized national monuments. Biden restored them. Project 2025 calls for reductions againA fire ignited Thursday afternoon near the southwestern bank of Lake Piru in Ventura County and by evening had burned nearly 300 acres. The flames stranded half a…
Read more Wildfire ignites along Lake Piru, threatening structures and stranding boatersThe flare-up of the Line fire worsened Monday as evacuation orders expanded and firefighters lost some ground on containment of the San Bernardino County wildfire. The new acres…
Read more Line fire flare-up tips California over a grim milestone: 1 million acres burned in 2024Detroit has cars. Chicago has slaughterhouses. New Orleans has jazz. We have orange groves. Had. For a hundred years, the Bothwell family’s orange grove in Tarzana stood at…
Read more Patt Morrison: Where have all the orange groves gone?Every hiker in Los Angeles knows that sinking feeling. You stare at the mountains (because that’s what we do when we have a moment) and see a dark…
Read more Commentary: Southern California forests are burning. Protect them from their biggest threat — peopleAmid a record-breaking heat wave, firefighters in Southern California have struggled over the last week to contain three large wildfires that have scorched more than 100,000 acres. The…
Read more As weather conditions improve, firefighters make progress battling Southern California wildfiresAs the Bridge fire swept through mountain communities Tuesday night, Mountain High’s webcam showed a dramatic scene: Flames cutting through ski lifts at the well-known ski resort. The…
Read more Bridge fire swept through Mountain High, but famed ski resort largely survivedFour years after unveiling an ambitious plan to conserve 30% of California’s lands and coastal waters by 2030, state officials on Monday announced that they are closing in…
Read more With 25% of state land protected, California nears its ’30×30′ conservation goalAngeles National Forest visitors were being evacuated Sunday as a wildfire broke out north of Glendora in Los Angeles County. Dubbed the Bridge fire, the blaze had quickly…
Read more Bridge fire in Angeles National Forest grows to 200 acres; visitors are evacuatedSACRAMENTO — A human-caused brush fire near San Jacinto had grown hundreds of acres by Sunday evening, leading to evacuation warnings and sending six firefighters to local hospitals, according…
Read more Record fire in San Jacinto burns hundreds of acres; 6 firefighters hospitalizedA San Bernardino County wildfire that spanned 680 acres and took 275 firefighting personnel eight days to contain began with a few sparks from an excavator. That’s what…
Read more Upland company created the sparks that set off the raging 2021 South fire, federal suit allegesA century-old orange grove in Tarzana appears on its way to becoming the site of luxury homes, a transformation that would mark the end of commercial citrus farming…
Read more Final orange grove in the San Fernando Valley is likely to give way to luxury homes
