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Mountain lions, increasingly squeezed by homes and highways, are creeping toward official protected status. The 2020 World Ag Expo is high on a newly legal crop: hemp. And take a look at how UCSD spent half of a $10 million donation and appears to have…
Plus: The feds propose green-lighting a pesticide linked to declining bee populations. Xenophobia rears its head as coronavirus spreads. And the Northern Lights are moving south.
Just under 200 Americans who left the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak arrive in Riverside County. Millennials lose hope they’ll ever own a home. And border officials uncover the longest tunnel to date linking Tijuana to Mexico.
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Kobe Bryan’s helicopter was the “Cadillac Escalade” of choppers, loaded with extras, but not, as it turns out, a terrain warning system. Bernie Sanders rises to the top of contenders the week before early voting gets underway here. And 11 African wild …
Kobe Bryant and eight others died in a helicopter crash during fog so dense police choppers wouldn’t go up.And two middle-schoolers learn the origins of the man for whom their school was named — he favored segregating Mexican and white students and spo…
Renters with Section 8 vouchers get abused. The Trump administration threatens to withhold money if the state continues requiring health care plans to provide abortions. And even as state lawmakers want them out, one private prison company thrives.
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The rideshare giant is testing a feature to let drivers set prices — and get around the new gig economy labor law. Plus: A nonprofit asks Uncle Sam to lease it land to put up tiny homes for chronically homeless people.
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It’s a claim frequently made: Homeless people in town are from somewhere else. It’s really not true. In related news, Gov. Newsom wraps up a homelessness tour in Oakland, where he promises to “own the issue.” And planning a trip to Yosemite this long w…
Find out how to see more than a million snow geese as they feast in NorCal’s plentiful rice fields. And our Palm Springs-based political reporter breaks down all you need to know ahead of the Golden State’s March 3 primary.
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Plus: A battery charging station caused a fire that killed 34 people aboard a diving boat over Labor Day weekend, attorneys representing deceased families claim. And the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite still applies to the 2020 Academy Award nominees.
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