For decades, residents of Bakersfield have lived with a river that’s little more than a channel of dust. The Kern, which pours from the snowy peaks of the southern Sierra, descends upon California’s ...

Abstract: Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) for semantic communication (SemCom ... To this end, this article proposes a transmission map-guided JSCC (TGJSCC) for underwater SemCom to better extract ...

Earl and I went to California, and we were mugged. By whales. Three humpbacks. “Mugged” is the official term, meaning we were ...

Spring, even in drought years, is the time for California wildflowers to burst forth in their finery. We start our search with our local rivers and their tributaries, looking north to south ...

Graeme Souness will swim the Channel and back again to raise money for a skin condition charity that helps people like 16-year-old Isla Grist. A friendship between a Highland teenager and a Scottish ...

Imagine your spark bird is the bald eagle. You thought you were applying for a summer internship with the Student Conservation Association, thesca.org, during college. But what you were really ...

California (KPIX) -- California Highway Patrol officers in the East Bay said they arrested the driver of a U-Haul rental box truck and seized more than one ton of cannabis, following a ...

A map of California shows where drivers are advised against taking detours during a winter storm. A map of California shows where drivers are advised against taking detours during a winter storm.

March 31 (UPI) --An early toxic algae bloom off the coast of Southern California is killing or sickening hundreds ... founder and director at the Channel Islands Cetacean Research Unit. In addition to ...

Drone operator Strong Island took shots of MV Stena Vinga leaving Portsmouth International Port this morning, carrying freight and passengers to the Channel Islands. The 125m long vessel ...

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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – CAL FIRE has rolled out an updated map of the state’s Fire Hazard Severity Zones. This map identifies areas at risk for wildfires, categorized into “moderate ...