California lawmakers have voted to shift a state forest system away from commercial logging and pave the way for tribal co-management, delivering a win to a movement rooted in the historic timber wars.

Managed by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, the state’s 14 demonstration forests are required to ...Read more

Reports that the Trump administration is working to transfer part of Yosemite National Park to a private land developer have heightened concerns among park advocates and the public about privatization of public land.

The proposed deal, which a government spokesperson said has not been finalized, would involve a land swap: The ...Read more

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang called on Group of 20 nations to accelerate their adoption of artificial intelligence as a way to enhance growth, urging the world’s largest economies to expand data centers and other infrastructure to support the emerging technology.

“Every single country needs to build infrastructure so ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The killing of mule deer on Catalina Island will go forward after a judge tentatively denied a request from hunting groups and concerned citizens to pause the controversial plan pending the outcome of a legal challenge.

The Catalina Island Conservancy was authorized to start killing deer Tuesday under a permit issued by the ...Read more

Buying a laptop is anything but easy sometimes — it’s a classic example of too many choices.

Do you want a smaller, lighter machine? Or one that has a larger screen and better battery life? How about a laptop fast enough for occasional (or frequent) gaming?

Do you want a touch screen? How about an OLED display? Need 4K graphics?

How does ...Read more

DETROIT — A foreign moth that could have stirred up trouble was intercepted for the first time in the United States at Detroit Metro Airport, officials said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers captured the potentially destructive winged bug, a straw crest moth — Mesophleps silacella — at the airport in January, representatives ...Read more

In grasslands across the American West, four-legged fire prevention crews are busy at work, helping keep wildfire risk under control. These cattle, goats and sheep stomp down tall grasses as they munch their way through plants that could otherwise burn, lowering the risk of catastrophic fires in the process.

When livestock are ...Read more

Last week a friend asked me for a recommendation for adding more USB ports to her laptop.

USB ports are added to a computer by adding a USB hub. Think of a USB hub like a plug strip that you’d use at home if you needed to plug in more devices at an electrical outlet.

There are a few factors involved in picking out the right hub.

Begin by ...Read more

Eufy’s new solar-powered Wi-Fi Wall Light Cam S4 is as versatile a security camera as there is. It features almost everything you need in a do-it-yourself unit, producing a 4K crystal-clear resolution. Its flexible design enable it to be mounted on walls, rooftops, fences, etc.

Highlighting the most important features isn’t easy, since it...Read more

Skating games offer a canvas of unbridled creativity. It’s a genre where players can string together moves and score high points by showing off their talents on a virtual skateboard, kickflipping around fictional warehouses or parks.

In “Denshattack!,” developer Undercoders takes concepts from games such as “Tony Hawk Pro Skater” ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to launch a new phase of the county’s fight against Tijuana River pollution, approving funding to plan a new treatment system to capture sewage from the river itself and to advance a permanent fix at a toxic air pollution hot spot in South County.

Supervisors voted 4-1 to ...Read more

DENVER — Voters will decide in November whether to dedicate state sales taxes collected on outdoor gear to conservation and wildfire prevention grant programs.

If approved, Proposition 137 would also exempt that sales tax revenue from falling under the state’s spending cap set by the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, the mechanism that ...Read more

When Hurricane Michael tore through the Florida Panhandle in 2018, a beach house called the Sand Palace was left standing, while more than half the buildings around it were destroyed.

Its owners had built it to withstand roughly double the wind speed that Florida’s code required, with reinforced concrete walls on 40-foot (12-meter) ...Read more

Governors across the country are relying on their executive powers to address the increasing public backlash against data center proposals.

In July 2026, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul placed an effective moratorium on data center permitting until the state’s Department of Public Service creates a generic environmental impact statement ...Read more

Charles Degliomini worries Maryland is racing toward a wall of its own making. The executive vice president at Rekor Systems — a Columbia-based technology firm that uses AI for roadway intelligence — says Baltimore-area jurisdictions’ fight against data centers is cutting off the very infrastructure artificial intelligence needs to keep up...Read more

Central Florida’s Luke Delaney will have wait a little longer to take his first trip to space as NASA and SpaceX have delayed the upcoming Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station.

In a Sunday update, NASA said testing of the Crew Dragon Grace, which has flown on one previous mission, revealed an oxidizer leak on the spacecraft’s ...Read more

SpaceX and NASA are delaying the launch of a planned mission to the International Space Station to fix an oxidizer leak in the Dragon spacecraft’s propulsion system, the U.S. space agency said.

NASA and SpaceX are doing additional testing and didn’t announce a new target launch date for the Crew-13 mission, which will be staffed by American...Read more

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The skies cleared and NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket hurtling past a rising sun, headed for a mission to unravel some celestial mysteries.

The powerhouse rocket lifted off from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A at 7:26 a.m. with the $4.3 billion telescope that’s off on a trip...Read more

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a $4.3-billion sister to the Hubble and James Webb telescopes — launched into space Sunday morning on a SpaceX rocket with space enthusiasts and scientists from around the world looking on.

Once fully operational, the observatory is expected to vastly expand scientists' inventory of planets outside...Read more