Mar. 26—Glancing at the new temporary school on a grassy slope in Pulelehua, Maui, casual onlookers might perceive a simple cluster of boxy modular buildings hurriedly erected in just over three months, but Gov. Josh Green calls the school's rapid construction "a small miracle " in the wake of a disaster, and he and others also see the beginnings of healing and hope. Glancing at the new ...
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The City of Berkeley has settled a lawsuit by the California Restaurant Association to repeal that city’s first-in-the-nation ban on gas hookups in new construction, dealing a final blow to more than a hundred similar measures in California cities including Sacramento. Berkeley’s 2019 gas ban became a cornerstone in a national battle over the future of fossil gas in buildings as dozens of ...
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Del. James Moylan has announced that he is preparing to introduce a bill that would address the issue of pending inspections by the Guam Environmental Protection Agency, which adversely impacts the progress in completing construction projects both inside and outside of military fences in Guam within projected timelines. The bill seeks to enhance the manpower needed to complete these ...
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Colusa County is known for sprawling rice farms and almond orchards, wetlands full of migrating ducks and geese, staunch conservative politics, and the 19th-century family cattle ranch where former Gov. Jerry Brown retired five years ago. But the windswept county in the Sacramento Valley — whose entire population of 22,000 people is just one-third of Palo Alto’s — may soon be known for ...
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Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy giant Sempra, announced Thursday it is moving forward on the third phase of a large wind energy complex in Baja California. Some 64 turbines will be erected at the Cimarron wind project, with capacity to generate about 320 megawatts of power under a 20-year power purchase agreement with Silicon Valley Power to supply ...
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Construction has begun on a path project along the American River in Sacramento that officials hope will be completed by the end of the year. The second phase of the Two Rivers Trail project is expected to create a 2.4-mile mixed-use path on the south side of the river to connect Sutter’s Landing Park near the Capital City Freeway and H Street. It’s part of a decadeslong effort by the city to ...
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SAN JOSE — A dispute between a powerful transit agency and a legendary real estate firm over the value of a downtown San Jose property needed for a future BART stop could wind up in a court trial. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is attempting to seize a building with addresses ranging from 41 through 55 West Santa Clara Street in San Jose, a parcel needed for a future BART ...
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The Anaheim Planning Commission Monday night gave its approval for Disneyland’s on-property expansion plans, the first of two needed votes to allow the company to grow its theme parks with new attractions and hotels. The project, dubbed DisneylandForward, would give Disney more flexibility to choose where it builds new theme park areas, hotels and dining, without expanding beyond its existing ...
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Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner will resume limited passenger rail service through San Clemente starting Wednesday, March 6. Emergency repairs continue to install a 160-foot long, 10- to 15-foot tall catchment wall at the base of a landslide that occurred in January, destroying a popular coastal pedestrian bridge and threatening the rail tracks. Passenger service has been halted through town since ...
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Del Mar is proposing to create a seven-member task force to monitor plans to reroute the train tracks off the fragile coastal bluffs and into a tunnel beneath the small city. The proposal will be discussed at Monday's Del Mar City Council meeting. The task force would include five voting members who are Del Mar residents and two non-voting members from the nearby Torrey Pines area of San ...
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