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Peterson Road is seen in the the Sites Valley, the location of a proposed reservoir, near Maxwell, Calif, Wednesday March, 19, 2014. In a show of bipartisanship, Democratic Rep. John Garamendi and Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa proposed legislation Wednesday, for a federal study of the costs of building the Sites Reservoir in the valley that is about an hour's drive north of Sacramento. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Amid controversy, California greenlights the state’s first large reservoir in decades

California water regulators have approved a permit for the planned Sites Reservoir northwest of Sacramento, clearing the way for construction of the state’s first major reservoir in decades.

A National Park Service remote camera captured the first photograph of a coyote climbing the southern slope of the crossing.

This iconic L.A. mammal is the first to venture onto the wildlife crossing over the 101 Freeway

Storage tanks near an oil refinery in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.

Brazil puts forward a plan to wean the world off fossil fuels

Los Angeles, CA - August 18, 2026 : A trashcan near the iconic pink wall at the Paul Smith store on Melrose Avenue holds a few Starbucks drinks cups and other single use plastics on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

California’s plastic law will cut far less single-use plastic than expected

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CA - OCTOBER 28, 2026: Guests hike a section of the 51 acres returned to the Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians in the San Gabriel Mountains which was funded by the California Natural Resources Agency. The land is near what is known as "Three Sisters Rock" now renamed as pahi yeeyt teta (three large rocks). Photographed on Wednesday, October 28, 2026. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

A tribe returns, joyful, to 51 acres in the San Gabriel foothills

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