By MELINA WALLING | Associated Press Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found …
PORTLAND, Maine — Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners of the world, disrupting ecosystems and flummoxing scientists who don’t see a …
If you’re picking up your bags at Terminal B at San Jose Mineta International Airport, it’s not your imagination: There really is a huge inflatable baby chick in the terminal. …
By GENE JOHNSON and BECKY BOHRER | Associated Press OSO, Wash. — After the mountainside collapsed, obliterating a neighborhood and 43 lives in the worst landslide disaster in U.S. history, …
By JULIE WATSON | Associated Press California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice …
For 35 years, Gil Estrada has bore witness to the perils of Mt. San Antonio, the 10,064-foot peak known by most as Mt. Baldy that divides Los Angeles and San …
Kate Linthicum | Los Angeles Times (TNS) YITZHAR, West Bank — Carrying planks of plywood, a group of Israeli settlers pushed past soldiers guarding the barrier surrounding the Gaza Strip and …
It’s possible Southern California has never been as wet as it is right this minute. Waterfalls, swimming holes, rivers, lakes, once-in-a-while creeks, part-time reservoirs; the greener stretches of Los Angeles, …
CAPITOLA — Slowly but surely, Capitola’s historic wharf is being pieced back together after it was torn in two more than a year ago. But as recent repairs have allowed …
By MARCIA DUNN | AP Aerospace Writer SpaceX’s mega rocket blasted off on another test flight Thursday and made it farther than two previous attempts, but the spacecraft was lost …