Telegraph.co.uk
| May 15, 2013
A shifting hill and surrounding area in Lake County, California, has began to swallow up several homes. At least ten houses have been evacuated. Experts believe the ground may have opened up because of broken water pipes saturating the ground. The...
Associated Press
| May 6, 2013
The California Highway Patrol has launched an investigation into a deadly fire that erupted in a limo on a San Francisco area bridge, trapping and killing five women inside, including a bride, on their way to a bridal shower. The vehicle was carry...
Associated Press
| May 3, 2013
Wildfire season has started early in California. One huge blaze northwest of Los Angeles has burned a 10-mile path to the ocean, closing a stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway and causing thousands of evacuations.
Associated Press
| Apr 28, 2013
Thrilled fans lined up in Los Angeles to catch a surprise gig by the Rolling Stones ahead of their "50 and Counting" anniversary tour. Tickets for the 90-minute concert at the Echoplex in the Echo Park neighborhood went for a mere $20. Bruce Willi...
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KCET
| Apr 16, 2013
It's hardly the pits. Food is falling from the sky and it's free for all ... maybe. A group of Los Angeles "Fallen Fruit" artists are collecting lemons, oranges, tangerines and bananas growing on public lands and they're branching out to plant the...
Artbound
| Apr 8, 2013
It's a cafe. It's an art space. It's a sustainable mini-farm. It's a fusion of all those, and, of course, it's in California. Thank You for Coming is a place where people re-create community, eat, cook and enjoy art, like the "automat" exhibit thi...
The New York Times
| Mar 29, 2013
For America's beekeepers, who have struggled for nearly a decade with a mysterious malady called colony collapse disorder that kills honeybees en masse, this past year was particularly bad.
Democracy Now!
| Mar 27, 2013
For the second day in a row, the US Supreme Court is confronting the issue of same-sex marriage, hearing arguments today on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, that denies federal benefits to legally married same-sex co...
Associated Press
| Mar 26, 2013
The US Supreme Court hears arguments today on California's voter-passed ban on same-sex marriage. Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, who filed a federal lawsuit to overturn the ban, spoke today of the hope and faith the...
Newsy
| Mar 25, 2013
The Supreme Court will take a second look this year at affirmative action by considering a Michigan referendum passed by state voters which bars "preferential treatment" based on race, gender or ethnicity in the university system. An appellate cou...
— May 6 at 06:25 pm
...as much as Foo was in his, so perhaps it’s a macabre measure of how far big-wave surfing has come that when Long nearly drowned at Cortes he was...
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is the most populous U.S. state, home to 1 out of 8 Americans, and is the third largest state by area. It is home to the nation's second and fifth largest census statistical areas, and eight of the nation's 50 most populated cities. The capital city is Sacramento.
California is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, and Arizona to the southeast. California is also bordered by Baja California, a state of Mexico, to the south. California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by the Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States, and has the 3rd longest coastline of all states. Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
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