Tag: California

• Tuesday, May 23rd 2023 - 11:21 UTC

  Depletion of the Colorado River forces California, Arizona and Nevada to a conservation agreement

  

  Three western US states have agreed to draw less water from the drought-depleted Colorado River in exchange for US$1.2bn in federal funding. Arizona, California and Nevada said the deal would conserve at least 3 million acre-feet of water to the end of 2026.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  World record lottery jackpot, one billion US dollars. The US$ 2 ticket was sold in California

  

  A single ticket-holder from California has won the largest lottery jackpot in world history, a US$ 2.04 billion prize (with an estimated cash value of US$ 997.6 million), officials announced of Tuesday. The winning ticket was the only one to match all five white balls as well as the Powerball.

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 20:34 UTC

  Separate shootings rock US during the weekend

  

  The United States was shaken this past weekend by various shooting sprees nationwide. On Saturday, ten people were killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and three others were injured and on Sunday similar events in California and Texas, have left at least three more people dead.

• Friday, February 25th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  “People's Convoy” on its way to Washington DC

  

  US lorry drivers grouped under the “People's Convoy” have departed from California and are on their way to Washington DC to express their stance against COVID-19 restrictions.

• Wednesday, January 19th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  LA chosen to host Summit of the Americas in June

  

  The Government of the United States has chosen the City of Los Angeles in the State of California to host the next Summit of the Americas the week of June 6 this year after the event was put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Monday, March 1st 2021 - 08:34 UTC

  Facebook will pay US$ 650 million for illegally collecting biometric data to identify faces

  

  A US federal judge has given final approval to Facebook's US$650 million payment to settle a privacy dispute between the California group and 1.6 million users in the US state of Illinois. The decision was issued on Friday.

• Monday, January 4th 2021 - 04:30 UTC

  Trump vetoes bill to gradually end the use of large mesh drift gillnets off California

  

  President Donald Trump vetoed a bill that would have gradually ended the use of large-mesh drift gillnets deployed exclusively in federal waters off the coast of California, saying such legislation would increase reliance on imported seafood and worsen a multibillion-dollar seafood trade deficit.

• Thursday, November 5th 2020 - 09:07 UTC

  Close encounter of two kayakers with a humpback whale off California

  

  Whale watchers in Avila Beach, California had a close encounter with a humpback whale as the marine giant almost swallowed two kayakers. The event was caught in the video and has made its round on the internet.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 08:39 UTC

  California wildfires rage renowned vineyards in Napa and Sonoma counties

  

  A wind-driven wildfire raged for a second day through Northern California wine country on Monday, burning homes, forcing thousands of residents to flee, and threatening some of the world-renowned vineyards of Napa and Sonoma counties.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Trump denies climate change in California; Biden called him a “climate arsonist”

  

  President Donald Trump on Monday suggested global warming will reverse itself and dismissed climate change as a cause of ferocious fires engulfing swaths of the US West, during a briefing in California on the deadly blazes.