Topic: California
Environmentalists want the federal government to set aside more than 53 million acres in New Mexico, Arizona, California and Texas as critical habitat for the endangered jaguar. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is evaluating which areas of the Southwest will be set ...
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says a series of drenching storms has freed up more water for parched farms and cities throughout California. Salazar announced Tuesday that growers in the farm belt south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will receive at least 25 percent of the water they ...
Southern Californians were jolted from their sleep before dawn Tuesday as a small but strongly felt earthquake struck beneath Los Angeles' eastern suburbs. No damage or injuries were reported, however, and jangled nerves appeared to be the biggest impact of the magnitude-4.4 temblor, which struck at ...
