$46,000 in stolen copper and aluminum found at recycling center, L.A. police say

09/19/24 12:55 AM

The city of Los Angeles has been trying to crack down on copper wire theft, including businesses that might be reselling it.

'Pick up a rake, get dirty, and then you'll be protecting the land'

09/15/24 10:00 AM

'I have hope because recently, local governments have been consulting Indigenous nations about hundred-year-old problems using thousand-year-old solutions.'

'Social justice and equity are built into everything we teach'

09/15/24 10:00 AM

At environmental charter schools, students are taught about the effects of environmental degradation — and how to be advocates for their community.

'Unprecedented' cluster of mosquito-borne dengue virus cases confirmed in Baldwin Park

09/18/24 9:03 PM

Two more cases of the mosquito-borne dengue virus are confirmed in Baldwin Park, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

4 injured in crash on Elmwood and Hinman early Thursday

09/19/24 3:40 PM

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Four people were injured in a two car crash at Elmwood Avenue and Hinman Avenue early Thursday morning, Buffalo police said. Police said an Infiniti was traveling northbound on Elmwood around 4:30 a.m. Thursday when it struck a Chevrolet Tahoe. The two male drivers and two male passengers in the cars [...]

A California zoo, an advancing wildfire and a delicate rescue operation

09/18/24 10:00 AM

As the Big Bear Alpine Zoo came under threat from the 39,000-acre Line fire, staffers evacuated most of its animals to sunny Palm Desert.

A decade after signing of California groundwater law, major challenges remain

09/17/24 10:00 AM

Ten years ago, California adopted a law to curb chronic overpumping of groundwater. Significant challenges remain, even as the state works toward its goals.

A flier promoting a homelessness ballot measure leaves out a key fact: It's a tax increase

09/16/24 10:00 AM

A ballot measure that would mandate "a new approach to expand programs that are proven to prevent homelessness and increase housing affordability" is a sales tax increase. But you wouldn't know it from a flier arriving in mailboxes around the county.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation settles class-action tenant case over squalid living conditions

09/17/24 5:30 PM

Residents alleged pervasive problems within the building, including mold, vermin, plumbing and electrical issues that they said the foundation failed to fix.

An industrial chemical is showing up in fentanyl in the U.S., troubling scientists

09/16/24 6:32 PM

An industrial chemical used in plastic products has been cropping up in illegal drugs from California to Maine.