Last year, state lawmakers broke from tradition by not including an exception for the California coast in a major housing law. That deliberate omission came despite opposition from the California Coastal Commission — the voter-created state agency tasked since 1976 with scrutinizing anything that gets built, demolished, dug, divvied up, fixed, tamped down or clear…
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Lily Girma | Bloomberg News (TNS) Tourism in Egypt was roaring back with a vengeance in 2023: The land of the pharaohs welcomed 14.9 million international visitors throughout the year, a record number since the pro-democracy uprising of 2011. For a country mired in economic woes, the visitor boom painted a promising trajectory. That was…
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State Attorney General Rob Bonta on Tuesday announced the filing of more than 27 felony charges against three men allegedly involved in an organized retail crime operation that targeted high-end stores in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, Alameda and Santa Clara counties resulting in more than $300,000 in losses. The investigation included personnel from…
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LOS ANGELES — Long before Julian Lewis was the heir apparent at quarterback USC, he was simply a seventh-grader playing ball at Pace Academy in Atlanta, and his father T.C. needed advice. They’d written the script for Lewis since he was 7, chasing greatness. Life was calculated, decisions structured around football dreams. And as Lewis…
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By Holden Lewis | NerdWallet A landmark legal settlement between home sellers and the real estate industry could cause a shakeup in the way homes are bought and sold, beginning this summer. The National Association of Realtors announced Friday that it had agreed to pay $418 million to settle more than a dozen antitrust lawsuits…
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Over the last 15 months, Huntington Beach has taken an abrupt turn, not to the right, but rather backward. The extreme City Council majority has slammed the transmission into reverse, stripping gears, and likely permanently damaging the engine of our local government. Rushing to take advantage of a low-turnout March primary, the council majority put…
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Sometimes the itinerary calls for bougee amusements — and we can’t think of a better Napa Valley locale for indulgence than Yountville. A quaint stretch of wine country located mostly along a one-mile roadway, Yountville is home to some of the world’s most recognized restaurants, several of Napa Valley’s most distinguished tasting rooms and a…
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Need a way to entertain kids out of school or family in town for spring break? Here’s a free idea that is typically a hit among locals and visitors alike: tide pooling. There happens to be mega low tides this week, meaning the water recedes so much areas typically covered by the ocean are exposed.…
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There are musicians who enter the studio with every song perfectly planned out, and then there is Kim Gordon. “It just kind of happened that way, you know?” she says of the denser, noisier sound of “The Collective,” her second solo album that arrived this month. And some variation of that answer – about lyrics,…
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By Tom Krisher and Matthew Daly | The Associated Press The Biden administration this week is expected to announce new automobile emissions standards that relax proposed limits for three years but eventually reach the same strict standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. The changes come as sales of zero-tailpipe emissions electric vehicles, needed to…
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