A growing patchwork of moratoriums and potential bans are taking shape across the valley — even as more plans for new data centers come to light.
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A proposal announced Friday spares Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming from facing mandatory cuts for now. But it’s a temporary fix as the states that rely on the river still fight over management of the dwindling resource that powers huge swaths of the Western U.S. -
Big waves are being created by Hurricane Genevieve off the west coast of Mexico. -
Authorities in France and Spain say some of their wildfires are mostly contained, but others are blazing on and a new wave of extreme heat is raising fears of more fires to come. -
Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people, including a foreigner, in southwestern Japan. -
Dangerously hot conditions are in the forecast for eastern San Diego County until at least 8 p.m. Monday, with temperatures in the mid-to-upper 90s in the mountains and up to 115 in the local deserts, forecasters said Monday. -
Federal wildlife authorities are investigating after a video appeared to show a person kicking a protected sea lion at a beach in California. -
In southern France, a wildfire in the region of Gironde is still active, while two major fires in central Spain are finally coming under control, ahead of the fourth heat wave of the summer. -
When summer rolls around, many parents scramble to sign up their young kids for outdoor activities. But what do you do when extreme heat and wildfire smoke increasingly make the outdoors dangerous? -
California’s wildfires are destroying forests faster than the state can replant them, and federal cuts are making the gap worse. One expert says the crisis is barely known — even though it could reshape half the state’s forests by 2071. -
Environmental groups want Board of Environmental Safety member Rhys Williams to resign over ties to a lobbying firm — the latest Newsom aide to land a plum state board seat. Legal experts say his appointment isn’t illegal — but one ethics scholar says it raises a much bigger question about public trust.
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