Encouraged by the Trump administrations pro-development policies, an Oregon county wants to take some control over federal lands that cover half of the high desert, mountains and forests within its borders.
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Barbara Patton scans the expansive beach on Washington’s outer coast looking for telltale signs of dead seabirds: a feather sticking straight up, dark colors in the sand, unusual seaweed clumps that could mask a carcass.
Just offshore from Waikikis pristine white sand beaches, a fishing boat transporting foreign workers destined for low-paying jobs in Hawaiis fishing fleet smashed into a shallow reef last month.
Husband-and-wife falconers Alyssa and Mike Bordonaro are “The Hawk Pros,” just one of a number of Southern California bird-abatement businesses.
Rumbling bulldozers and front-loaders have started scraping up the ash, charred wood and crumbled bricks and concrete left from thousands of homes and buildings destroyed by blazes in California wine country, launching a new phase in the largest wildfire cleanup in state history.
A homeless crisis of unprecedented proportions is rocking the West Coast, and its victims are being left behind by the very things that mark the regions success: soaring housing costs, rock-bottom vacancy rates and a roaring economy that waits for no one.
Disneyland has shut down two cooling towers after people who visited the Southern California theme park came down with Legionnaires’ disease.
A daughter of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs said he sexually abused her for years when she was a child growing up in the secretive group, according to an interview aired Friday on “Megyn Kelly Today.”
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