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By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times
The wide, green gorge where the majestic Columbia River begins its final push to the sea generates so many stiff breezes that windsurfers...
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
Training a child to hold a whole cluster of items in his or her memory for even a short time may feel like trying to hold a wave on the...
By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times
On a June day, Frank Gehrke and Vince White strapped on their cross-country skis and glided across the wintry landscape of Dana Meadows in...
By Stephen Ceasar, Los Angeles Times
Thousands of wildfire evacuees began returning to Eagar and Springerville on Monday amid warnings from health officials of a lingering...
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times
It's finally time to fish, and Duncan MacLean is ready.
By Joe Piasecki, Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Works will start work in July to remove 25,000 cubic yards of sediment from the basin behind...
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
Robert Helliwell, a Stanford electrical engineer whose study of radio waves emitted by lightning opened a new window to understanding the...
By Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times
More than 1,000 people in California have been infected with whooping cough this year, and health officials have encouraged the public to...
By Jill U. Adams, Special to the Los Angeles Times
An 18-year study from the National Cancer Institute has found that widespread screening for ovarian cancer doesn't save lives but does set...
By Neela Banerjee, Washington Bureau
For years, some conservatives called 13-term Rep. Fred Upton "Red Fred."
By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
Some survivors of last month's massive tornado that destroyed much of Joplin, Mo., are facing another indignity: an outbreak of a rare but...
By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times
Caltech's graduating class marched across the stage at Friday's commencement ceremony bedecked in more than 12,000 plastic bottles.
It's probably going too far to say that former president and onetime oilman George W. Bush was a better conservationist than President...
Like it or not, and we didn't like it, the Supreme Court's controversial decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times
NASA's newest Mars rover — or a replica of it, anyway — sat expectantly at the bottom of a hill. After years in design and...