California
Legislation would close the loophole in California’s pet retail ban by prohibiting brokers from selling or shipping dogs to consumers in the state, in response to a Times investigation.
Letters to the Editor
‘Peak water’ is here, and the Colorado River is over-allocated. A reader says it’s time to think big and build a massive water pipeline to the river.
The Times obtained scores of dog export records, law enforcement and animal control investigative files and federal inspection reports.
California’s puppy pipeline: Where is your dog from?
World & Nation
The fire shot orange flame and then black smoke hundreds of feet into the air, prompting authorities to evacuate nearly 1,000 homes.
Climate & Environment
Plans to restart a pipeline in Santa Barbara County have angered residents worried about an oil spill similar to the massive one near Refugio State Beach in 2015.
Huntington Beach officials announced the city would receive a $5.25-million settlement from Amplify for the 2021 spill of 25,000 gallons of crude.
An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas has shut down a pipeline that brings oil from Canada through the Plains and to the Texas Gulf Coast.
A former investigator for the Humane Society of the United States says Department of Agriculture rule changes can help shut down puppy mills for good.