LOS ANGELES — Grizzly bears are extinct in California but still show up everywhere you look.

The golden bruins emblazon the state flag and seal, live on in cartoonish effigy as university mascots, and roll off the tip of our tongue in place names like Grizzly Flats and Big Bear Lake.

But what if the real ursine deal could be brought back?

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Manatees are not the only marine mammals that suffer when seagrass dies off in Florida.

A new study found that dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon starved when seagrass meadows declined as well.

Researchers from the University of South Florida and the University of Central Florida analyzed tooth and tissue samples from ...Read more

For the first time in decades, America needs to produce more electricity.

In many places, a sharp uptick in power demand has been driven by data centers, the industrial buildings that house huge banks of computer servers and support our increasingly digital society.

State lawmakers have long sought to attract such operations with generous tax ...Read more

The next time you’re on a Zoom meeting or asking ChatGPT a question, picture this: The information zips instantaneously through a room of hot, humming servers, traveling hundreds, possibly thousands of miles, before it makes its way back to you in just a second or two.

It can be hard to wrap your mind around, said Vijay Gadepally, a senior ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump called on China to reach out to him in order to kick off negotiations aimed at resolving the escalating trade fight between the world’s two largest economies.

“The ball is in China’s court. China needs to make a deal with us. We don’t have to make a deal with them,” White House Press Secretary ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A dozen Pacific Palisades and Malibu residents are suing the city of L.A., alleging the Department of Water and Power and others could have done more to prevent and contain the massive January wildfire that destroyed their homes.

The list of plaintiffs, all 70 or older, reads like a cast of Hollywood characters, including a ...Read more

Brown pelicans across Southern California are filling up wildlife rehabilitation centers, either sick or starving — a dual crisis that wildlife experts believe could be linked to a massive toxic algae bloom.

For the last month, hundreds of seabirds have been poisoned by domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced in harmful algal blooms that are ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Below California's famed beaches, mountains and metropolitan areas lies a sinister web of earthquake faults — some so infamous that their names are burned into the state's collective consciousness.

There is, of course, the mighty San Andreas, whose massive slip caused the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake and whose notoriety...Read more

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen will travel to El Salvador on Wednesday hoping to check on the “well-being” of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Maryland man erroneously deported – and try to secure his release from a notorious prison.

“It should be a priority of the U.S. government to secure his safe release, which is why tomorrow I am ...Read more

A Michigan man has been sentenced after officials said he was upset his girlfriend went on a cruise so he sent in a bomb threat, diverting the ship.

Joshua Lowe was sentenced to eight months in prison after pleading guilty to false information and hoaxes, according to court records.

McClatchy News reached out to Lowe’s attorney for comment ...Read more

President Donald Trump wants Congress to change a policy that gives certain drugs longer protection from drug price negotiations in Medicare, a fix that could address one of the drug industry’s top complaints with the Biden-era law.

Trump directed his health secretary to work with lawmakers to end the differential treatment for small molecule...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House announced Tuesday that it was eliminating the traditional press pool access for wire services after a federal court ordered the administration to end viewpoint discrimination against The Associated Press.

The move will significantly reduce the traditional level of access for journalists from the AP, Reuters and ...Read more

The state of Maryland is allocating $1.7 million for a series of community-led environmental projects for the Back River and Patapsco River watersheds, which encompass Baltimore City and portions of Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, and Howard counties.

The funding was announced at a news conference Tuesday at Cox’s Point Park in Essex on ...Read more

GREENBELT, Md. — A hearing for a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison turned into a noisy protest late Monday afternoon as his supporters chanted and sang outside the courthouse, and his wife accused the Trump administration of “playing political games.”

“God hasn’t forgotten about you,” Jennifer Vasquez Sura ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina House Republicans are moving ahead a bill that would allow the public to sue schools for having library books that they feel are harmful to minors.

Two House committees backed a bill Tuesday that says schools will not have books in school libraries that include “descriptions or visual depictions of sexual ...Read more