Aggressive and impactful reporting on climate change, the environment, health and science. A handsome man with the physique of the college football player he had once been walks into an airtight, 8-foot-square Plexiglas booth heated to 90 degrees. The door closes behind him. When he staggers out, two hours later, he has won no fabulous…
SAN FRANCISCO — Hours after Sen. Dianne Feinstein died Friday at age 90, Tania Chacón walked up to a pair of ornate tables set up in San Francisco City Hall for mourners to write their goodbyes. A city native who works in the building for the Assessment Appeals Board, Chacón said she had cried at the…
Even Mother Nature has turned her back on Lake Los Angeles. The lakes that gave the community its name dried up years ago, taking with them the high-end restaurant, a planned country club and designs to turn the sprawling town on the eastern edge of the Antelope Valley into a resort. Left behind are boarded-up…
#Yankees #Rodón #pitching #coach #smooth #clashing #mound #- KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Yankees manager Aaron Boone was still smoothing over some clubhouse discord with two games left in a lost season Saturday after Carlos Rodón and pitching coach Matt Blake clashed on the mound the previous night. Rodón was in the midst of allowing all…
AVALON, Calif. — A plan to use helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to kill nearly 2,000 invasive mule deer roaming the mountains of Santa Catalina Island has ignited a storm of protest among residents of the popular resort destination and prompted calls for state wildlife officials to block the hunt. The Catalina Island Conservancy — the nonprofit that manages…
No cause of death has been disclosed for Dianne Feinstein, the longtime California senator who struggled with evident health problems in her final years before her death Friday. She was absent from the U.S. Senate for nearly three months earlier this year while recovering from a case of shingles that led to encephalitis, a rare…
Law enforcement authorities late Saturday were looking for an 86-year-old man and his 78-year-old brother who were missing after last being seen in Glendale. Minas Khacheryan was last seen Friday morning in the 1000 block of East Chevy Chase Drive, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. He was with his brother Grigor Khacheryan, 78,…
SACRAMENTO — California’s housekeepers and nannies won’t get workplace safety protections, after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have included the industry in labor laws already granted to other workers. The decision is a major loss for unions and immigrant rights advocates who have fought for years for regulation of an industry…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation on Saturday that would have granted workers on strike unemployment benefits, a measure strongly supported by Hollywood unions and other influential labor organizations in California. Newsom’s rejection of Senate Bill 799 delivers a rare blow to organized labor, which has enjoyed strong support in the Democratic-controlled state Legislature. In…
#IronPigs #regular #hitting #matter #hes #called NEW YORK — Even before rain complicated a rather meaningless season-ending series, Weston Wilson understood his job at Triple-A was to stay ready. Around his storybook big league debut in August and a brief September cameo, Wilson kept right on hitting. He could get a postseason look down the…
