California’s big, storied past gets a nuanced, superbly researched retelling in one volume
Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...
Sunshine Canyon Landfill faces community backlash over wildfire debris disposal
With the landfill near homes, community members fear that bringing in wildfire debris could make the situation worse.
‘Built to burn.’ L.A. let hillside homes multiply without learning from past mistakes
Los Angeles County keeps building in hillsides and canyons even as the fire risk worsens. For a century, the lure of ...
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Do you know where Southern California gets its water from? An explainer
and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Los Angeles Aqueduct, which brings water from the Eastern Sierra (a.k.a. Owens Valley),” Kimitch said. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ...
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Los Angeles Allowed Hillside Homes to Multiply Despite Fiery Past
The 1913 construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a bold engineering feat that transported water more than 230 miles to the semiarid region, paved the way for more than 100,000 people to move ...
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Another casualty of a bone-dry winter: Los Angeles won’t take less water from Mono Lake
Geoff McQuilkin, Mono Lake Committee Adam Perez, DWP’s Los Angeles Aqueduct manager, said the rainless fall, which has continued in an alarming winter dry spell, factored heavily into the ...