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A botanist searches for the seeds of the rare Death Valley Sage

For more than 15 years, Naomi Fraga of the California Botanic Garden has been trying to collect the seeds for safekeeping in a vault of native California seeds.

A woman with black hair and wearing a pink shirt and striped black and white leggings has her back turned to the camera as she stands in front of vehicle painted with the words "The Laundry Truck LA."

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LA's Chinatown has no laundromats. Enter this laundry truck

Many lower-income residents wash clothes by hand or have to travel outside the neighborhood for laundry.

A group of people dancing in the concrete bed of the Los Angeles River is depicted. Speakers are seen on either side of the picture and a large tree is seen in the background.

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This guy is turning the LA River into a dance floor

These sunset dance parties offer free good "dry fun."

Two people wearing hats stand in front of a mural painted in blue.

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This Pomona park has five Cesar Chavez murals. Will they all have to go?

A conversation between the Chicano muralist, Pomona’s mayor, and a scholar signals the challenges of the future of Chavez murals.

A drinking fountain is shown at the entrace to the Rose Bowl Stadium.

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Toilet back-ups at Rose Bowl LA28? $1 million is coming to fix that

The funding’s only a small portion of the repairs the 103 year-old Rose Bowl needs in the years to come.

A small chick with gray feathers sitting on a white towel appears to look head-on at the camera.

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LA Zoo hatches first vulture chick from new habitat

The zoo said it’s the first major breeding success in its Cape vulture habitat, which opened up last year.

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