I-80 has become a pipeline for narcotic trafficking over the years. Troopers are paying close attention. It's not uncommon for the department to discover drugs on travelers when passing through the Cornhusker State.
Early Tuesday, at 3:05 a.m. Pacific time, the March full moon turned a dark red as a total lunar eclipse unfolded, lasting for about an hour and peaking at 3:33 a.m. Anyone willing to be up for the early-morning event witnessed the moon's deep reddish-orange glow as the Earth passed directly between the sun and moon, casting a gigantic shadow across the moon's surface.
On top of devastating losses and rebuilding and insurance claim headaches, survivors of the 2025 Los Angeles County firestorms have faced an increasingly existential threat to their communities: large investment firms buying up burned lots, which many worry will forever change the fabric of their treasured neighborhoods.
The winning ticket matched all six numbers from Saturday night's SuperLotto Plus drawing and was sold at a Circle K convenience store in Upland, San Bernardino County, according to the California Lottery. It is the first time in 26 drawings that a ticket has matched all six numbers. Saturday's winning numbers were 8, 11, 22, 37 and 46, and the Mega number was 24.
Liu, who walked away from the sport four years ago, made an amazing comeback that concluded with a gold medal. In fact, she was the first American woman to win an individual Olympic medal in the sport since Sasha Cohen in 2006.
McIndoe, a captain at Fire Station 69 in Pacific Palisades, didn't think the plan was a good idea, he said in sworn testimony obtained by The Times. He had read the National Weather Service's forecast for the day - temperatures were expected to be warmer - and handling any lingering hot spots would be easier with hoses in place.
Colette Choates, a founding member of Milpitas' Juneteenth celebration and Black History Month flag-raising ceremony, was among community leaders in Santa Clara and Alameda counties honored Feb. 14 at a Black History Month celebration. The event was co-hosted by state Assemblymember Alex Lee, San Jose-Evergreen Community College District Board Trustee Tony Alexander and Fremont City Councilmember Desrie Campbell.
Four Campbell teens are among the 97 artists whose work has been chosen for ArtNow 2026, the annual juried show at New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) for high school students in Santa Clara County. NUMU received more than 600 submissions from 53 high schools on the theme Before/Between/Beyond.
We want an end to the use of herbicides in our creeks. This idea that we're just going to spray, hose down these creeks and leave them dead is unacceptable. Linas and other residents have filed requests for records detailing the chemicals the county uses to control vegetation in the waterways, such as glyphosate, triclopyr and imazapyr.
Almost a quarter of adults in Humboldt County are enrolled in CalFresh. This puts the county at the 9th highest enrollment in California, up from 19th in 2014. About 14% of California residents use CalFresh, the state's version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But usage in the far northern portion of the state is much higher, according to a report from the University of California, Davis.
Silicon Valley is home to a large Ukrainian diaspora - many immigrants from Ukraine have come to work in the tech industry as engineers. Some of them have been using their tech skills to bolster the effort to defend Ukraine, and this army of engineers, coders, hackers, and tinkerers has become a vital part of the country's resistance against Russian aggression.
Nearly 6,000 properties sit in various stages of insurance dispute, debris clearance, redesign or financing limbo. What has stalled progress, residents say, is not a lack of will, but a lack of coordination, capital flow, clear accountability and the critical question around insurance.
The California Public Utilities Commission has approved $3.29 million in grants from the California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) Broadband Adoption Account that will support 18 digital literacy training projects and three broadband projects across the state. The 21 projects will provide services to about 16,145 Californians.
In Orange County, I was the kind of person who would bury my nose in a magazine to avoid chatting with a hairdresser. I rushed through the checkout line and never said, 'How are you doing?' to someone I didn't know. If small talk was ever forced upon me, I gave away as little about myself as possible.
