Hurricane Helene left more than 3 million homes and businesses in the dark across Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas after hitting Florida’s Big Bend region as a powerful Category 4 storm late on Sept. 26, 2024. As Helene’s rains moved inland, officials warned that fixing downed utility lines and restoring power would take several days in...Read more

Constellation, an energy company that provides electricity and natural gas to customers in 16 states and Washington, announced on Sept. 20, 2024, that it plans to restore and restart Unit 1 at Three Mile Island, a nuclear plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, that was shut down in 2019. Microsoft has signed a 20-year agreement to purchase ...Read more

There are many portable power SUB batteries to choose from, and while they might look similar, odds are they aren't. A battery like Anker's new MagGo Power Bank takes versatility to a new level.

The travel-friendly portable battery has the Anker ultra-compact design with a 3.7-by-2.0-by-1.3-inch, 8.64-ounce size. Inside the MagGo Power Bank ...Read more

Just up the road from Oakland and Berkeley, the city of Richmond is a minority and low-income community of 115,500 people — mainly Latino, Black and Asian American — with a major Chevron refinery whose pollution has been an ongoing source of conflict (the city just reached a $550 million settlement with Chevron to mitigate health and ...Read more

IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. — The Tijuana River should not be flowing this time of year. But throughout the dry season, it has — delivering millions of gallons a day of an unnatural mix of water, neon green sewage and industrial waste from Tijuana through the city of Imperial Beach to the Pacific Ocean.

This 4.4-square-mile beach town of 27,000...Read more

Owning a home in Southern California isn't just a dream for humans. Apparently the bears want in on the market too.

Just ask residents and city officials in Sierra Madre, who in the last few years have seen their furry, four-legged neighbors amble out of the forest and barge into their cars, kitchens and living rooms as though the humans were ...Read more

OpenAI is discussing giving Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman a 7% equity stake in the company and restructuring to become a for-profit business, people familiar with the matter said, a major shift that would mark the first time Altman is granted ownership in the artificial intelligence startup.

The company is considering becoming a public ...Read more

Imperial County consistently ranks among the most economically distressed places in California. Its Salton Sea, the state’s biggest and most toxic lake, is an environmental disaster. And the region’s politics have been dominated by a conservative white elite, despite its supermajority Latino population.

The county also happens to ...Read more

DENVER -- Metro Denver and the northern Front Range just experienced one of the worst ozone pollution seasons in 10 years, with 40 days when air quality measurements exceeded federal standards.

A summary released this week by the Regional Air Quality Council, a quasi-governmental agency that makes recommendations for reducing air pollution, ...Read more

Financial services, like many institutions, are losing Americans’ trust. That’s a problem. Economies depend on a healthy financial system, as became painfully evident during the 2008 financial crisis, and that system operates largely on trust — confidence that people can access the money in their bank accounts, that their investment ...Read more

Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said it will take many years to resolve Google’s antitrust battles, downplaying the idea that they pose an immediate threat to the company’s business.

“It’s going to take time for it to play out,” Pichai said in an interview for an upcoming episode of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Chesapeake Bay cleanup is behind schedule but “going in the right direction,” largely because Pennsylvania has stepped up efforts to curb the flow of fertilizer and other runoff into bay tributaries, an Environmental Protection Agency official told Maryland lawmakers Wednesday.

“To Marylanders — as a Marylander — the ...Read more

DENVER — The eight known wolves still roaming Colorado’s mountains stayed in the state’s north-central ranges in September, a monthly tracking map released Wednesday shows.

The wolves did not enter watersheds immediately surrounding Walden and Steamboat Springs — two areas wolves previously had frequented. The wolves primarily stayed in...Read more

Video games aren’t exactly synonymous with classic literature. Players will find references to works like “Romeo and Juliet”, but developers don’t often tackle novels like “As I Lay Dying” or “Don Coyote.” The two biggest ones in recent memory have been “Dante’s Inferno,” a “God of War”-like project from Electronic ...Read more

I’ve written about spam emails and what to do when you receive them. I usually write about other people, but yesterday I received an email to my main Google Mail account that is a textbook example of a mass extortion email message.

The body of the email was simply my name and home address, so it got my attention.

Attached to the email was ...Read more

“Uncharted” and “Tomb Raider” owe a huge debt to Indiana Jones. They couldn’t exist without George Lucas’ creation. The movies he created with Steven Spielberg inspired generations of children who grew up and crafted their own adventurers who explored lost temples and escaped precarious situations.

Although Indy’s influence ...Read more

For years, Nevada has put affordable energy on the back burner. Now, ratepayers are getting burned.

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy recently put out research on energy bills. In Las Vegas, it found that a quarter of low-income households spend 12.6% or more of their families’ income on home energy. The median for low-...Read more

PARK COUNTY, Colo. — Polluted water leaking from thousands of abandoned mines in Colorado’s mountains is turning wetlands orange and dumping toxic dissolved metals in the headwaters of many of the state’s rivers.

But people who want to fix the problem are hampered by the very federal laws meant to protect the environment.

Organizations ...Read more