MIAMI — In the north and the south of the county, on the beach and at the cusp of the Everglades, in neighborhoods of all kinds, the number of students attending traditional public schools is down.

Overall, enrollment in traditional public schools in Miami has declined steadily for decades, but in recent years, the issue has become so ...Read more

A new plan by California lawmakers to help fund the state's struggling journalism organizations could advance in the coming days but faces an uncertain future.

Assembly Bill 2222 would create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ, which in practice would provide direct cash...Read more

WHITE MESA, Utah — On a hot April day, Malcolm Lehi maneuvered his Jeep Wrangler over a rough dirt road past junipers and sagebrush in search of Entrance Spring on land long connected to his tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute.

The cool, mossy spring lies just across the highway from White Mesa Mill, the nation’s only remaining conventional uranium...Read more

Icelanders are on track to reject reopening membership talks with the European Union in Saturday’s referendum.

Opponents of negotiations with the 27-member block were narrowly ahead with 50.1% against 49.9% for supporters of the move after the majority of ballots was preliminarily counted, according to data presented by public broadcaster RUV...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After grappling with rancid odors and missed deadlines, Boyle Heights residents may finally get some relief, with air quality regulators confirming Saturday that millions of pounds of decaying food have been cleared from the burned Lineage Logistics facility.

South Coast Air Quality Management District said the company's removal...Read more

An 18-year-old boy died as a fire sparked by a lithium-ion battery tore through a Brooklyn apartment, FDNY officials said Saturday.

The blaze marked the second fatal fire in the city this year caused by a lithium-ion battery, officials said.

Neighbors said an explosion erupted inside a 12th-floor apartment at NYCHA’s Albany Houses on Troy ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After weeks of intense negotiation, state lawmakers on Friday reached a compromise on legislation to regulate energy use by California’s growing data center industry, action triggered by community anger over the facilities and fears of high utility bills in some communities.

The goal, according to legislators and ...Read more

RICHMOND, Calif. — A woman who miraculously survived being hit by an Amtrak train two years ago is now suing the city, arguing that its “long-standing failure” to maintain a fence by the railroad track is what caused the near-fatal crash.

The plaintiff, Carmen Hernandez, is far from having fully recovered from the “catastrophic” ...Read more

A federal judge this week ruled that the Trump administration unconstitutionally tried to suppress the free speech of noncitizen students who spoke out against Israel’s actions in the war in Gaza by threatening deportation.

The decision was a win for The Stanford Daily student newspaper and an unnamed student who filed a lawsuit last August, ...Read more

A petroleum distributor has filed suit in federal court alleging it supplied $4 million worth of gasoline sold to multiple Freedom Fuel Network gas stations but has never been paid for it.

That is at least one reason, the civil suit claims, Freedom Fuel Network gas stations have been able to sell gas so cheaply after President Donald Trump ...Read more

Fernando Jauregui Ochoa had carefully depicted himself on social media as a trustworthy and successful Central California food truck builder.

His videos drew dozens of aspiring food truck owners, many of them immigrants like Ochoa, who entrusted him with their life savings in hopes of turning their dreams into a livelihood.

But Stanislaus ...Read more

With firefighters already struggling to contain the Timber fire in Big Sur, California, a second wildfire in the region grew rapidly Friday and into Saturday — sending flames in the direction of Highway 1.

The Plaskett fire, which ignited Tuesday in a remote area about 30 miles down the coast from where the Timber fire started, exploded from ...Read more

Police have arrested the man who burst into flames inside a lower Manhattan building where Google has an office, officials said Saturday.

John Butch, 65, was charged with criminal mischief, arson and reckless endangerment while hospitalized, recuperating from severe burns he suffered when his backpack burst into flames inside the Hudson Square ...Read more

Federal immigration authorities said they deported right-wing provocateur and online influencer Milo Yiannopoulos after he was detained and accused of overstaying his visa.

Yiannopoulos was arrested at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Thursday after a federal immigration judge on July 22 ordered his deportation when he ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two more New Yorkers have died of Legionnaires’ disease, raising the death toll from this summer’s Upper East Side outbreak to eleven, as city officials say they have stopped the virus in its tracks.

NYC Health Commissioner Alister Martin announced the two additional deaths on X, while adding that “there is no evidence of ...Read more

The International Association for Great Lakes Research is standing by one of its longest colleagues — Lake Ontario.

The scientific organization, which promotes research on the Great Lakes, among other freshwater bodies of water, said it will continue to call Lake Ontario by its given name in spite of President Donald Trump's executive order ...Read more

In a late-night deal with lawmakers, Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to drop his push for legislation that would have shifted more of the cost of utility-sparked wildfires to property insurers, sharply raising premiums across the state.

After weeks of closed-door negotiations with lawmakers and protests by wildfire survivors, the governor also backed ...Read more