The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is encouraging local housing authorities to experiment with giving cash directly to renters in pilot programs it wants to follow.
California voters have approved Proposition 1, a ballot measure aimed at boosting mental health resources and addressing the state’s homelessness crisis.
The plan sets an ambitious goal to conserve at least 3 million acre-feet of water by the end of 2026, utilizing resources made available through the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Environmentalists say the feds' plan to restore two areas burned in fires in 2020 and 2021 will put nearby wildlife and threatened species at serious risk.
Though never finished, newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst's "La cuesta encantada" — what we know today as Hearst Castle — contains over 20,000 works of art, just as he intended.
Regional planners in the mountain resort area approved a new plan in December that would allow for taller, denser construction in town centers, but conservationists say the planners did not conduct a proper environmental review.
The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Department of the Interior on Thursday to grant the little-known Sierra Nevada red fox protection under the Endangered Species Act.