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A logging truck in Roseburg, OR.
If more timber is harvested in Oregon, it puts a greater burden on California and other neighboring states.
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L.A.'s Mayor announced the overhaul of the board last month amid heated talks over a labor contract covering 90 percent of employees at the city-owned utility.
The headqarters for the L.A. Department of Water and Power in downtown L.A.
A Los Angeles City Council committee cleared four mayoral nominees on Monday to join the Board of Water and Power Commissioners.The Energy and Environment…
A memorial ghost bike in Pasadena left for hit-and-run victim Jocelyn Young, who was killed while riding her bike in 2011.
"It's hard for us to encourage people to bike and walk, when our streets are treated like the Wild West."
Detail of a sign at a fracking protest in New York City
Two Los Angeles City Council members introduced a motion today calling for a citywide halt to hydraulic fracturing.
Gay marriage remains legal in California.
More than a month after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex weddings to resume in California, the state's highest court today rejected the last remaining legal challenge to the unions.
Madrona Marsh.
Daily mosquito monitoring by the Los Angeles County West Vector Control District suggested the need for closing the preserve.
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The company has only three products, all of them red, hot and inside bottles with the distinctive rooster trademark.
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After months of drought, Los Angeles is now experiencing fourth-wettest July since 1877.
Nury Martinez. | Photo: Courtesy Nury Martinez for City Council
Former Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education member Nury Martinez defeated former Assemblywoman Cindy Montanez.
A speaker at a Trayvon Martin rally in March 2012.
"I think it's an issue of letting people know that even though we are 3,000 miles away, this incident has affected the city of L.A.," said Bernard Parks.
Map of Los Angeles City Council District 6. | Image: Courtesy L.A. City Clerk
Residents who have gone without a voice on the L.A. City Council for six months will choose between a school board member and a former assemblywoman.
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