BATTLE MOUNTAIN -- An annual human-powered speed contest in northeastern Nevada ended with record setting performances by recumbent bicyclists from Canada and France.
Barbara Bautois, of France, added three miles to the women's speed record. The 32-year-old's 75.4 miles per hour ride Friday eclipsed the record of 72.5 mph she set earlier in the week. Canadian Paralympic athlete Greg Westlake, 22, set a hand-powered speed record of 42.3 miles per hour.
The untreated sewage forced Los Angeles County health officials to warn people to stay out of the water at Dockweiler State Beach, Venice Beach and the surrounding area.
Planet Fitness is doing something it hasn’t done in 26 years: raising the price of membership.
Target has Pride merchandise in fewer stores this year after backlash it received after pulling some items from last year’s collection.
Two climbers reported missing on California’s towering Mount Whitney have been found dead, officials said.
Legislation that would allow mining companies to use public land regardless of whether mineral deposits have been found on the land passed the House and will head to the Senate.
The two candidates are the top finishers among those running in the Las Vegas mayoral primary, based on a recent Emerson College voter preference poll.
Eldorado High School had barred a senior from wearing cultural regalia but reversed its position after the ACLU became involved.
Police detained several people Thursday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after demonstrators blocked a parking garage in their ongoing protest movement connected to the Israel-Hamas war.
Two backcountry skiers were killed and one was rescued after an avalanche in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City, authorities said.
State officials reported the presence of deadly chronic wasting disease in two wild California deer earlier this week.
