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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday proposed a plan to significantly reduce their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years, a potential breakthrough in a year-long stalemate that pitted Western states against one another. The plan would conserve an additional 3 million acre-feet of water through 2026, when current guidelines for how the ...
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May 16—In a unanimous vote, the Yuba Water Agency Board of Directors approved a $39.46 million budget on Tuesday for the Power Systems Headquarters facility, a power plant project which will allow current staff and future hires to work in an upgraded workspace. This facility will include an administrative building, warehouse, mechanics shop, covered equipment storage and a laydown yard. ...
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A Chinese real estate company was fined $4 million Friday for the lavish bribes that its owner paid former Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar as it sought approval to build a downtown skyscraper. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter, who has presided over a series of City Hall graft cases, bemoaned "the crushing weight of corruption" as he imposed the sentence on Shen Zhen New World I. ...
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On a February morning in 2021, a water treatment plant operator in Oldsmar, Fla., noticed something unusual: An unidentified user had remotely accessed the plant's computer system and was moving the mouse around the screen. The operator watched as the intruder clicked into various software programs before landing on a function that controls the amount of sodium hydroxide, or lye, in the ...
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It’s official – sand is coming to San Clemente. A project partnership agreement for the San Clemente Shoreline Protection Project was signed Thursday, May 4, between the city, federal government and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, marking a major milestone for the long-awaited project. Plans have been in the works for two decades to add sand to a eroding stretch of the quaint beach town, ...
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Six people were rescued Wednesday after they became trapped by materials that collapsed at a movie studio under construction in Glendale, city fire officials said. The rescue began around 11 a.m. when firefighters at a station in the 1200 block of Glendale Avenue "heard a loud noise," said Anita Shandi, deputy director of the Glendale Fire Department. Roof beams, or trusses, had collapsed at a ...
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California added more than 123,000 housing units in 2022, reaching growth levels not seen since 2008. The state increased its year-over-year housing production by 0.85%, building more than 116,000 new units, according to the California Department of Finance. That’s a 0.1% increase from 2021 and the highest level in 15 years. But it falls far short of meeting needs in a state where the housing ...
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In the latest development in a legal battle that has gone on for over a decade, the California Supreme Court ruled that the controversial lease-leaseback contract between Fresno Unified School District and Harris Construction that built Gaston Middle School was illegal. Now the question is whether the construction company, owned by prominent Fresno developer Richard Spencer, will have to pay ...
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California’s attorney general is suing the city of Elk Grove for denying a contentious affordable housing project in the city’s Old Town. “You can’t ignore the law because it doesn’t suit you,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday, adding later, “They’ve resisted the law time and time again. They have left us no choice.” This day was threatened for months ever since Elk Grove ...
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With phase one of San Diego's Pure Water sewage recycling system nearly half built, city officials are making major adjustments to plans for constructing the rest of the system in order to avoid delays and potentially shrink overall costs. To cope with severe flooding at the Morena Boulevard pump station that threatens to delay the start of operations by more than a year, city officials now ...
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