Southern California officials on Thursday launched an initiative aimed at curbing an invasive mosquito species that has spread rapidly in the greater Los Angeles area during the past 10 years.The effort includes releasing tens of thousands of sterilized male mosquitoes into the wild to mate with female mosquitoes, according to an April release from the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District. The process is called the Sterile Insect Technique, or SIT, and was used by the California...
For much of the past year, the Southern California housing market has been defined by an extreme shortage of homes for sale. The abnormal scarcity — compounded by the region's long-running underproduction of housing — emerged when homeowners chose not to sell and give up pandemic-era mortgage rates. The so-called seller strike helped pushed home values to new records, despite rising borrowing costs. Now the inventory picture might be changing. "It's getting a little bit better," said Eneida...
SpaceX successfully launched a rocket from Southern California into orbit Thursday. The launch of 20 more Starlink satellites happened around 9:30 p.m. out of Vandenberg Space Force Base north of Los Angeles County. The Falcon 9 rocket flew through the sky with a crescent moon in sight. In March, SpaceX's huge Super Heavy-Starship rocket, the most powerful ever built, blasted off on its third test flight, successfully boosting the unpiloted upper stage into space. W
A SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 late Thursday night.Initially scheduled for Wednesday, SpaceX pushed back the Falcon 9 launch to May 9 at 9:30 p.m. PT.According to SpaceX's website, 20 Starlink satellites shot up to low-Earth orbit from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Those looking to get more information on the upcoming launch can click here.Also worth mentioning – if a friend sends pictures of a streak of light over the Southern California skies sometime Thursday night, chances...
The waterbed was invented by a San Francisco State University graduate student in 1969, and it quickly captured the American imagination. It soon became a symbol of the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll lifestyle for which the 1970s was famous. It hit the peak of its popularity in 1987, when one in every five mattresses sold in the U.S. was a vinyl bag that could be filled with up to 250 gallons of water. But even as waterbed design has evolved in modern times (more stability, less sloshing), these...
A university president in California was placed on leave Wednesday after sending a controversial email to the campus community on Tuesday announcing an agreement to boycott Israeli institutions -- apparently without authority.
Mike Lee told students that Sonoma State would become first US university to refuse to work with Israeli academic institutionsA public university in California has placed its president on leave for “insubordination” after he agreed to student demands for an academic boycott of Israel.Mike Lee was suspended from Sonoma State University following an announcement on Tuesday that the liberal arts college north of San Francisco had agreed with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) to become the...
See the top-selling releases among hardcover fiction and nonfiction, plus trade paperbacks for the sales week that ended May 12.
See the top-selling releases among hardcover fiction and nonfiction, plus trade paperbacks for the sales week that ended May 12.
For almost 150 years, Los Angeles has been an idea as much as a place. Even before the growth of Hollywood, newspaper publishers and land developers sold a carefully constructed image of the region to the world. These boosters promoted Los Angeles as a suburban paradise to an audience of middle-class white families in the Midwest. Perhaps surprisingly, as both a concept and an immigrant enclave, Chinatown was crucial to developing this image and forming L.A.’s identity. Following the completion...
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More than a dozen RVs went up in flames after a fire erupted at a well-known RV dealership in Santa Fe Springs overnight. Police were the first to respond to Mike Thompson’s RV Superstore on