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Feds announce start of public process to reshape key rules on Colorado River water use by 2027 By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A public process started Thursday to reshape the way Colorado River water is distributed, with federal officials promising to collect comments about updating and enacting rules in 2027 to…
Five Powell students are taking their talents to southern California for the Western Edge FIRST LEGO League Open. They’ll be competing against teams from across the world in a unique robotics competition – open by invitation only. FIRST promotes itself as the world’s leading youth-serving non-profit advancing STEM education. Their mission is to “engage young…
Possible tornado near Los Angeles rips up building roofs By JOHN ANTCZAK and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A possible tornado touched down in a Los Angeles suburb on Wednesday, ripping pieces of roofing off a line of commercial buildings and sending the debris twisting into the sky and across a city…
California faces more flooding after strong Pacific storm By MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A strong late-season Pacific storm that brought damaging winds and more rain and snow to saturated California was blamed for two deaths and forecasters said additional flooding was possible Wednesday in parts of the state. Tuesday’s storm…
Atmospheric river floods California towns, brings rain, snow By MARTHA MENDOZA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — More than 9,000 California residents were under evacuation orders Friday as a new atmospheric river brought heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds, swelling rivers and creeks and flooding several major highways and small…
For the H.M.I.C., the “baseless, dangerous and defamatory attacks” against Representative Chu are in the same vein as those that lead to the internment camps that detained “disloyal” Japenese Americans during World War II. Judy Chu has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2009. She currently serves as the representative for California’s 28th…
Volunteers in mountain towns dig out snow-stuck Californians By MARCIO SANCHEZ and AMY TAXIN Associated Press LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. (AP) — After a blizzard swept through Southern California mountains, 79-year-old Alan Zagorsky found himself shut inside his home with snow blocking the door and stairways leading out. He and his wife had enough food to…
Trapped Californians rescued from snow, helped by neighbors By AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Search crews have rescued Californians stranded for days in multiple feet of snow after back-to-back storms plastered the state’s mountain communities and trapped many in their homes. In Inyo County on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada,…
Some California mountain residents could be snowed in a week By JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some residents stranded in Southern California mountain communities by a huge snowfall could be stuck for another week, an official said Friday. A late-February blast of arctic air produced a rare blizzard east of Los Angeles…
California’s snow-stranded residents need food, plows, help By BEN FINLEY and AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Olivia Duke said she’s been trapped in her home in the snow-plastered mountains east of Los Angeles for so long that by Thursday the only food she had left was oatmeal. Snow plows have created a…