Climate & Environment
Southern California’s native landscapes are famously tough. But repeated wildfire and drought amplified by climate change pose a growing threat to wildlands that provide us with drinking water, untamed refuge from the Southland’s sprawl and stop mountainsides from sliding into our living rooms.
California
Anyone 16 and older living or working in Los Angeles County can get vaccinated without an appointment this weekend at county-run COVID-19 vaccination sites
The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Los Angeles County has fallen below 1,000 for the first time since late November.
Gov. Newsom has declared a drought emergency in Mendocino and Sonoma counties but said he was not prepared to issue statewide water-use restrictions.
Poseidon still needs approval from the California Coastal Commission and a binding deal with a public agency to buy 50 million gallons a day of purified seawater.
Water board debates how and when Poseidon should offset the environmental harm of its proposed Huntington Beach seawater desalination plant.
A month ago, the 5-day average of deaths in Los Angeles County was 12. As of Saturday, average daily deaths had climbed to 62, a 416% increase.
Record amounts of regional water storage will buffer urban Southern California from the effects of drought this year.
Two men were arrested Saturday on suspicion of battery at a Beverly Hills rally for President Trump.
Emails reveal that Newsom administration officials and Poseidon Water executives have been heavily involved in a regional water board review of the desalination proposal.