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A California Department of Fish and Wildlife plan to introduce tidal flows into the Ballona Creek wetlands has come to a screeching halt after a judge ruled recently that the agency's environmental impact report on the project failed to adequately account for flood risks. In a May 17 decision, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant ordered the agency to set aside its ...
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Metrolink and Amtrak Pacific Surfliner trains resumed service through Orange County on Saturday after rail traffic was partially suspended due to a landside in San Clemente last month. Crews completed emergency construction to stabilize the hillside below the Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens and cleared debris from the tracks, allowing Metrolink trains to resume travel to and from ...
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Insurance giant State Farm is no longer accepting new applications for business or personal property coverage in California. "We take seriously our responsibility to manage risk," the company said in a statement posted to its website Friday. "State Farm General Insurance Company made this decision due to historic increases in construction costs outpacing inflation, rapidly growing catastrophe ...
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Gray, overcast skies on a cold Tuesday morning could not dampen the excitement of the sizable crowd gathered at Great Park‘s ARDA site, the former El Toro Marine Base, for the groundbreaking on over 300 acres of amenities. As Irvine Councilmember Mike Carroll, who chairs the Great Park Board, tooted a horn, an excavator’s blade careened into an old, blue-walled building that was once part of ...
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday proposed a plan to significantly reduce their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years, a potential breakthrough in a year-long stalemate that pitted Western states against one another. The plan would conserve an additional 3 million acre-feet of water through 2026, when current guidelines for how the ...
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May 16—In a unanimous vote, the Yuba Water Agency Board of Directors approved a $39.46 million budget on Tuesday for the Power Systems Headquarters facility, a power plant project which will allow current staff and future hires to work in an upgraded workspace. This facility will include an administrative building, warehouse, mechanics shop, covered equipment storage and a laydown yard. ...
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A Chinese real estate company was fined $4 million Friday for the lavish bribes that its owner paid former Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar as it sought approval to build a downtown skyscraper. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter, who has presided over a series of City Hall graft cases, bemoaned "the crushing weight of corruption" as he imposed the sentence on Shen Zhen New World I. ...
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On a February morning in 2021, a water treatment plant operator in Oldsmar, Fla., noticed something unusual: An unidentified user had remotely accessed the plant's computer system and was moving the mouse around the screen. The operator watched as the intruder clicked into various software programs before landing on a function that controls the amount of sodium hydroxide, or lye, in the ...
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It’s official – sand is coming to San Clemente. A project partnership agreement for the San Clemente Shoreline Protection Project was signed Thursday, May 4, between the city, federal government and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, marking a major milestone for the long-awaited project. Plans have been in the works for two decades to add sand to a eroding stretch of the quaint beach town, ...
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Six people were rescued Wednesday after they became trapped by materials that collapsed at a movie studio under construction in Glendale, city fire officials said. The rescue began around 11 a.m. when firefighters at a station in the 1200 block of Glendale Avenue "heard a loud noise," said Anita Shandi, deputy director of the Glendale Fire Department. Roof beams, or trusses, had collapsed at a ...
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