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Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 10,000 employees over five years, echoing a Border Patrol expansion in the 2000s.
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California is moving to become the first state to lower insurance costs for property owners who make improvements to reduce their fire risk, the state’s insurance commissioner said as wildfires again flared across the heat-stricken state. -
California’s water use dropped more than 10.4% in July compared with two years ago as the most populous state struggles with a years-long drought. -
Despite the hot, dry heat wave currently gripping much of California, San Diego County officials Wednesday cautioned that a hurricane off the coast of Mexico could bring high winds with potentially heavy rain to the county this weekend. -
With electricity demand reaching record levels due to a drawn-out heat wave, Southern California and the whole state avoided rolling power blackouts as the manager of the power grid called for maximum conservation efforts by residents. -
This week California’s grid operator predicts unprecedented energy demand due the state’s long-running heat wave. -
The heat wave continues to sear San Diego County and many are finding some relief at the beach, but even there temperatures are above average. -
It happens to the best of us. You wake up one summer morning, casually stroll through your home, and are confronted with ants. Ants swarming on the cat food, ants marching one by one into your garbage, ants, claiming a beachhead in your bathroom. Where do they come from? Why are they here? And what can make them go away? -
It is on its way to becoming law despite overwhelming objection from civil liberties advocates who fear it force unhoused residents into treatment. The legislation now goes to the Senate for a concurrence vote before heading to Newsom. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe pups are part of a total of 4,000 beagles taken in the largest animal rescue operation ever in the U.S. -
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