The Angeles National Forest can be described as a collection of rugged mountains, sparkling streams, dark canyons and breathtaking vistas, along with piles of trash, too few rangers, frequent picnic area and campground closures and fragmented access. On Tuesday night, Caltrans began asking the public to weigh in on a forest access proposal that would …
When the Route Fire burned about 5,000 acres near Castaic in August 2022, prompting closure of the 5 Freeway at The Grapevine followed by weeks of lane closures for repairs, motorists exited onto The Old Road detour, bringing traffic misery to the Santa Clarita Valley. Detours from the primary north-south freeway link between Southern and …
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By Ben Goldfarb Photographs by Tailyr Irvine Drive high enough into western Montana’s Lolo National Forest, up a succession of dirt tracks that parallel glittering creeks and twist through stands of fir and spruce, and eventually you’ll come to a clearing. At first glance it’s unremarkable, a grassy, sunlit hillside scattered with bleached tree trunks, …
Demands and priorities Britain is providing the executive an extra £3.3 billion to start patching holes in services and pay long-delayed wage hikes that just triggered the biggest public sector strike in Northern Ireland’s history. The trouble is, the head of Northern Ireland’s civil service, Jayne Brady, has already told the new leaders that these eye-watering sums are still …
LOS ANGELES — Dangerous winds were expected in parts of Los Angeles County on Saturday and Sunday, with forecasters warning drivers that the Grapevine might be shut down due to snow and ice and the strong gusts. A wind advisory will be in effect from 7 p.m. Saturday to 7 p.m. Sunday in Los Angeles …
This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM. LONDON — World leaders will touch down in Dubai next week for a climate change conference they’re billing yet again as the final off-ramp before catastrophe. But war, money squabbles and political headaches back home are already crowding the fate of the planet from the …
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. This story was originally published on October 18, 2023. LONDON — It is a multibillion-dollar plan to build a metropolis in the Indo-Pacific which critics fear may one day act as a Chinese military outpost. Now the vast Colombo Port City project has a …
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Fierce firefights and heavy shelling echo once again around the mountains of Nagorno-Karabakh, an isolated region at the very edge of Europe that has seen several major wars since the fall of the Soviet Union. On Tuesday, the South Caucasus nation of Azerbaijan announced …
NEW DELHI — Members of the G20 have drafted a joint statement expressing support for “territorial integrity and sovereignty” in the Russia-Ukraine war, according to language reviewed by POLITICO. The final version of the communique could still change as leaders of the world’s top economies — including Russia — have to approve of the text. …
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Ben Goldfarb Author of Crossings When alien archaeologists exhume the rubble of human civilization, they may conclude that our raison d’être was building roads. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the Earth, from the continent-spanning Pan-American Highway to the hundred thousand miles of illegal logging routes that filigree the Amazon. Our planet is burdened …