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After a historic winter hit California with dozens of atmospheric rivers, the last line of defense protecting the Pacific from much of L.A.'s trash held strong.In the first storm season of a two-year pilot project, Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor 007 stopped nearly 155,000 pounds of garbage from flowing out to the ocean.

A person who was believed to be homeless was struck and killed by a Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation vehicle Wednesday morning in Sherman Oaks, according to police.Los Angeles police responded around 11:45 a.m. to a report of a pedestrian who had been hit by a vehicle in the 15000 block of Burbank Boulevard, a residential area near the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area, Los Angeles Police Department officials said.

Two weeks after the city started construction on Valencia's center bikeway, the new bike lanes are steadily making their way down the street.So far, crews have painted green bike lanes in the middle of the road between 22nd and 23rd streets on Valencia Street.New signs that ban left turns from Valencia Street are up on every intersection from 15th to 23rd.

California drivers may not face rain this week, but potholes caused by recent storms pose new dangers.In Los Angeles, requests for pothole repairs have soared as downpours have crumbled streets.Since Dec. 30, there have been 2,407 potholes reported on Los Angeles roads, with 722 this weekend alone.So far, 812 of those reported have been fixed, said Elena Stern, a spokesperson for the Department of Public Works.

A tanker containing an unidentified flammable liquid overturned and caught fire on a highway in Frederick, Md., on Saturday, killing the driver and damaging multiple vehicles and homes, the authorities said.No other fatalities or injuries were reported in the crash, the Maryland State Police said.The fire, which sent enormous flames and plumes of smoke billowing above homes, caused Route 15 to be temporarily closed in both directions between Route 50 and 7th Street.

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There are more than 7,500 miles of streets in the city of Los Angeles.Just imagine how many potholes they'll have after a few more days of heavy rain.Driving over a pothole can damage a tire, wheel rim or axle; if the impact is severe enough, it can affect the vehicle's suspension, undercarriage, body or even its frame.

The family of a 35-year-old man struck and killed by a Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation vehicle last month plans to file a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city.David Soto-Toral was struck by the trash collection vehicle around noon on Jan. 25 in an alley in Sherman Oaks.His mother, Sara Toral, learned the news a day later from the coroner's office.

Search-and-rescue workers from Los Angeles have returned from Turkey after spending weeks assisting in the aftermath of the region's massive earthquake, which killed tens of thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.More than 80 Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel were dispatched Feb. 6 as part of the U.S. Agency for International Development's Disaster Assistance Response Team, which included a search-and-rescue squad from Fairfax, Va., after the magnitude 7.8 quake that devastated Turkey and northern Syria that day.

Now that the shock of a series of January storms has worn off, Los Angeles County officials face a herculean chore: Five reservoirs along south-facing San Gabriel Mountain slopes are filled with so much debris and soupy mud that they pose a flood risk to the communities below.Another intense storm, they say, could unleash new surges of dirt, toppled trees and boulders down canyons stripped of their binding vegetation by the 2020 Bobcat fire, sending chocolate-colored floodwaters over the dams and into the cities of Arcadia, Sierra Madre, Pacoima, Sun Valley and Sunland.

As winter storms pounded the West Coast, the crews operating the Ballona Creek Trash Interceptor 007 saw the extreme conditions as a test for the solar-powered waste collection system.Now that the skies have cleared, the results have become apparent: The interceptor has collected significant amounts of floating trash but also has been seriously damaged.

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 by Jo Clifton
In the wake of five troubling incidents between 2018 and 2022, which led the former director of Austin Water to resign, the utility's current leaders have been working to complete changes intended to prevent future service disruptions, such as boil-water notices.

Friday, March 10, 2023 by Nina Hernandez At its regular meeting this month, members of the city's Environmental Commission urged planners to prioritize saving as many trees as possible in the reimagining of Congress Avenue.The questions came after a staff briefing on the Congress Avenue Urban Design Initiative.

After the rain stopped Wednesday afternoon, the prevailing sounds in northwest Woodlake were those of rushing water and gas generators.On the town's edge in Tulare County, northeast of Visalia, dozens of houses had flooded repeatedly since early Friday as more storms slammed California.A new development was cut off from existing homes by a river of brown water a foot deep and 10 feet wide, coursing around signs reading "Sold" and "Ready to Move In!" before hitting a main street and being channeled to a natural creek bed.

Former NAACP Chairwoman Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, has donated her archival records to her alma mater, Pomona College, the school announced Thursday.Evers-Williams, who is a month shy of her 90th birthday, was only 30 when her husband was assassinated in Mississippi in 1963 by a white supremacist.

Most years at this weekend, I'm reminding people about daylight savings time.Today, I'm going in switch topics Let's discuss Boston neighborhood parking.Excerpt from city of Boston
The City's Daytime Neighborhood Street Cleaning program currently runs from April 1 through November 30 for all neighborhoods except the North End, the South End, and Beacon Hill.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.As pedestrians walked up Potrero near 23rd Street, an SFMTA officer warned of a fallen tree ahead and directed the southbound traffic to turn left onto 23rd toward Utah.Half of a large ficus tree outside of Walgreens at Potrero Ave. and 24th Street fell shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, crashing into a bus stop.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Hello!I'm trying something new with this week's Mission Moves, my newsy development newsletter.Instead of wrapping up three items of interest in one piece, we're going to break it up into separate bites.

Marin homeowners are beginning to take advantage of a new state law that allows them to to split their parcel and build up to four homes on the lot.The California Home Act, more commonly known as Senate Bill 9, took effect on Jan. 2, 2022.The law, which opens the door for more dwellings in areas zoned for detached homes, was passed with the hopes that it would help ease the state's critical shortage of affordable housing.

Local "Goodbye good van.Your replacement will have big tires to fill.I will drive again."A quadriplegic Springfield woman connected with the world through her specially equipped van.Then an uninsured driver totaled it.Andrea Pianka, who has been quadriplegic for over 20 years as the result of another car accident, was left with a totaled van and without her independence.

Water boil orders that were issued Thursday in the towns of North Attleboro and Plainville due to positive E. coli tests were lifted Friday afternoon.Residents in both towns were told to boil any tap water before use after routine testing found traces of E. coli.The towns are working to uncover the source of the E. coli contamination.The boil water order was lifted for both towns as of 4 p.m. Friday after further testing found that the town's water was safe for public use.Both towns made bottled water available to residents.

NEW DELHI Rehman Rahi, a celebrated Kashmiri poet who devoted his life to promoting and preserving the Kashmiri language and gave its poetry a distinct identity, died on Monday at his home in Srinagar, Kashmir's biggest city.He was 97.His son, Dr. Dildar Ahmad, confirmed the death.Throughout his career as a writer and university professor, Mr. Rahi was committed to Kashmiri, a language he considered the source of Kashmiri identity and essential for preserving the ancient culture of a divided territory.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.The city's Public Works Department today announced that the "Slim Silhouette" model will be the new public trash can.The silvery-gray bin made from stainless steel pipes, with a curved top, is meant to discourage graffiti and piling of trash atop the bin.

Marilyn Joyner's home (right) in Richmond continues to be the site of crashes into her home and yard.Image by the author.Editor's note: this article originally appeared on Greater Greater Washington and is republished with permission.Most people ring in the new year with a glass of champagne and perhaps even a kiss at midnight for good luck.

A bibliophile since childhood, I love reading everything from biographies to the backs of cereal boxes.So, I absolutely jumped at the chance to share ten of my current favorites with you in the realms of art, design, and architecture.Nearly all of these books are in my own collection - on the bookshelf or on the coffee table - so they're legitimate recommendations that I'd pick up for any of my family or friends.

The latest SF political mailer drops a provocation in the old San Francisco street poop debates, and it's largely paid for by a union that may gain some members under a Department of Sanitation and Streets.It's obvious why labor unions want a Department of Sanitation and Streets.The San Francisco street poop discourse has long been effective clickbait for the local and national media, and poop has popped up in politics too.But why are developers and their PR firms against the Department of Sanitation and Streets?

If wild lions were to become extinct, we would lose part of ourselves.They said: The bronze cubs symbolise the future generations of lions that can be created with hard work, dedication and a lot of love.When the film was made, there were around 200,000 lions in the wild across Africa.That is why I urge everyone who can to please visit this incredible exhibition and discover why this magnificent pride of lions means so much to Born Free.Twenty five life-size bronze lions have been exhibited in Edinburgh to raise awareness of the plight of the animal's population numbers in the wild.