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LA approves initial $5 million to help Boyle Heights residents, businesses recover from Lineage fire
The approved funding is part of a larger $10.5 million proposal by Councilmember Ysabel Jurado aimed at recovery and street cleaning.
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Person with ‘history of sleeping on the job’ held critical role during Eaton Fire, complaint allegesAn L.A. County employee makes the allegation in a whistleblower complaint and in interviews about the response to the deadly fire. County officials dispute the allegations.Listen 29:16 -
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The 101 Freeway continues to be the most common culprit in the traffic deaths of local cougars.
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California is acting later than many states in regulating neonicotinoids, but its rules would be among the nation’s most extensive. They would change how growers kill pests on nuts, citrus and other fruit crops.
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Saving the centuries-old trees in Yosemite's famed Mariposa Grove took hard work from firefighters but also half a century of intentional fires.
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High temperatures in Southern California come as other parts of the U.S. and Europe are experiencing record high heat waves
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In the not-so-distant future, California will be powered primarily by renewable energy, such as wind and solar. That transition will also require a well-trained workforce—and you could be part of it.
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Edgar McGregor didn’t set out to clean up trash. But when the 22-year-old began hiking in Eaton Canyon in 2019, he found himself bothered by the copious litter along his path.
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Most of our trash either ends up in a landfill—or is burned in Long Beach, at one of the last remaining trash incinerators in California. But that facility's future is in doubt.
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Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday that water use in June 2022 was down 9% compared to June 2021, but urged that caution is still needed.
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Wednesday’s full moon means coastal communities will be facing some really high tides, called “king tides.”
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Critics are raising concerns about cleaning efforts, accusing state contractors of engaging in "unsafe clean-up practices and worker abuse."
