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A first of its kind wildlife crossing in Northern California has been proposed over Highway 101 in San Benito County - the latest project in the state's efforts to provide safe passage for mountain lions and other animals over dangerous roadways.About $21 millionhas been raised to fund the overpass at 2,600-acre Rock's Ranch, the nonprofit Land Trust of Santa Cruz County announced earlier this year.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

On Google Earth it looks like a stunning opportunity: six acres of vacant land surrounded by single-family homes in a West Valley neighborhood.After being abandoned to shoulder-high weeds for nearly a decade, the former elementary school site in Woodland Hills is now a target for development.

People waste time and gasoline cruising for free on-street parking.Some put chairs or traffic cones out to mark spots that they claim as their own.Fights over spots have ended in homicide.Delivery vans double-park because there's no room on the curb.Garbage bags fill sidewalks because, again, there's no room on the curb.

Staatliches Bauhaus originated as a German school of arts in the early 20th century and transformed into one of the most influential art schools in the history of the world.Bauhaus, meaning 'building a house in German,' was established six months after the First World War in 1919 and aimed to build a new society after the ravages and destruction of the war.

Promotion: Turkish furniture brand Lazzoni has opened its first UK showroom on London's Tottenham Court Road - a street renowned for its selection of large furniture flagship stores.Founded in 1897 in the Black Sea coastal region of Turkey, Lazzoni is a family-run business with 24 stores around the world.

The homes of Hollywood's rich and famous have long been enclosed by walls of sky-high ficus, designed to shield their wealthy occupants from paparazzi and peeping Toms alike.Robert Frost may have thought good fences make good neighbors, but in Los Angeles, those fences are planted rather than built.

Many of you have seen the tweet.On May 27, the city of Santa Monica tweeted a video of a machine smoothly and quickly laying down the concrete barrier for a protected bike lane.Just about everyone who saw it, from Councilmember Jesse Zwick to activists in New York and Australia, had the same verdict, "we need more of these wonderful machines."

Think you can't afford an eco-home?Some of Canada's greenest apartments go for as little as $85 per month thanks to social housing providers who have embraced energy efficiency standards and green building techniques.Those builders say it's a way to use public money to solve multiple problems at once including mitigating and adapting to climate change and tackling growing housing unaffordability and homelessness.

To celebrate 300 issues of the world's leading magazine for 3D and VFX artists, 3D World, we're taking a look back at how the industry's changed since the magazine's launch in 2000.First up, we examine Pixar, and how the now ubiquitous name became a cultural giant.Digitally animated films have arguably become most well-known through the work of Pixar and DreamWorks.

A woman killed in Germany this week after a man reportedly threw her and a friend down a ravine near the famed Neuschwanstein Castle was from Naperville, according to media reports.The two women, identified as Eva Liu, 21, and Kelsey Chang, 22, of Bloomington, by the Daily Mail, were walking on a trail in Schwangau Wednesday when they were approached by a 30-year-old American man who offered to show them a hidden scenic lookout near the Marienbrücke, a pedestrian bridge that offers a view of the castle, Bavarian police said.

The TTC is rolling out significant changes to its bus and streetcar service in Toronto's east end starting this Sunday for some major infrastructure projects.The transit agency says construction will affect bus and streetcar service operating mainly out of Broadview, Coxwell and Main stations.The Broadview station changes will take place from Sunday until about November, while the Coxwell station changes will continue until at least mid-July and the Main station changes will continue until September.

As sustainable technologies develop alongside people's desires to live more sustainably, people have begun turning to their homes to reduce their carbon footprints , But have you ever wondered if you could build a home that wasn't just 'less bad', but instead actually restored the environment around it?

Large single-family rental investors didn't have much of an appetite in the fourth quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023.Or, rather, perhaps I should say that they didn't have much food to choose from.Purchases among the biggest SFR operators were down roughly 80% year-over-year, according to some estimates, and it wasn't because they couldn't make the rental prices work.

Check out these DC-area homes for sale this week:
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A corner-unit condo in Bethesda
This condo has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and 1,467 square feet of space.The corner unit features floor-to-ceiling, south- and west-facing windows, as well as a balcony.The building also comes with a gym, pool, party room, storage unit, and an assigned parking space.
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A Loudoun County townhouse
Where: 44846 Tiverton Sq., AshburnPrice: $648,000
This 2,538-square-foot townhouse has three bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms, a balcony, a rooftop deck, and a two-car garage.

People watch the Neuschwanstein castle, in Schwangau, Germany, Thursday, June 15, 2023.Frank Rumpenhorst/AP BERLIN An American man has been arrested over the death of one U.S. tourist and an assault on another near Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany after he allegedly pushed the two women down a steep slope, authorities said Thursday.

In Milan, there's one unofficial but very important entertaining rule: Never throw a party on a Saturday night.Monday through Friday, the city is brimming with creative people the quiet engines running the design and fashion industries but, when the weekend rolls around, they tend to leave for the nearby Swiss Alps or the Mediterranean coast.

It could be a new world record, although no one involved wants to talk about it.In the south of France, a collaboration among 35 countries has been birthing one of the largest and most ambitious scientific experiments ever conceived: the giant fusion power machine known as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).

The condo in Surfside, Fla., that collapsed two years ago had a pool deck with a severe strength deficiency and its construction in some areas failed to meet both building codes and its original design parameters, federal investigators have found.Concerns about the pool deck have surfaced repeatedly since the June 2021 collapse at Champlain Towers South that left 98 people dead, but the preliminary analysis from a federal team shows the extent of the problems uncovered so far.

(Jed Jacobsohn / Associated Press)

The Oakland Athletics appear to be two small steps from extinction.The Nevada legislature on Wednesday approved $380 million in taxpayer funds toward a new ballpark in Las Vegas, leaving two hurdles for the A's in their proposed move: Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo to sign the ballpark bill into law, and major league owners to approve the move.