A shallow magnitude 2.6 earthquake was reported Friday afternoon in Santa Monica’s Ocean Park neighborhood, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 5:07 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 4.3 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was one mile from Venice and four miles…
Los Angeles County is considering what amounts to a voluntary ban on electric scooters as it develops regulations for companies to operate them safely in unincorporated areas. The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a plan that would, for now, halt their operations in neighborhoods…
A planned Buena Park butterfly sanctuary that was expected to be one of the world’s largest – and whose developer has already sunk at least $15 million into it – appears to be in jeopardy. Construction of the Butterfly Palladium began in 2016 and it was supposed to wrap up by October. But with the building less…
Two Newport Beach watermen want something more substantial, even majestic, than the utilitarian pole-mounted light boxes that currently loom at the ends of the jetties to guide boaters into Newport Harbor. Keith Yonkers suggests a small but traditional-looking lighthouse at the end of the western…
A shallow magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Friday two miles from Yorba Linda, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 1:19 p.m. PST at a depth of 9.3 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was five miles from Placentia and six miles from Brea. In the last…
By PHILIP ISSA and ZEINA KARAM BAGHDAD — After days of conflicting statements about a timeline for U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out American troops from Syria, a U.S. military official said Friday that the withdrawal process has begun, declining to comment on specific timetables or movements. Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the U.S.-led…
By TODD RICHMOND | Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin teenager missing for nearly three months after her parents were killed in the family home was found alive barely an hour’s drive away, by a woman who stumbled across the 13-year-old girl and pounded on a nearby home’s door shouting: “This is Jayme Closs!…
The scene from the perimeter fence of Tres Hermanos Ranch is a glimpse back in time: longhorn cattle and deer roaming green fields framed by forested hills and watered by streams. Stretching from the 60 Freeway in Los Angeles County south to the western tip of San Bernardino County, the 108-year-old…
Southern California’s native landscapes are famously tough. But repeated wildfire and drought amplified by climate change pose a growing threat to wildlands that provide us with drinking water, untamed refuge from the Southland’s sprawl and stop mountainsides from sliding into our living rooms.
Imperial Valley farms still flooded a week after Tropical Storm Doreen.
