Thousands of Orange County residents are once again under evacuation orders Friday morning after a massive storage tank leak at an aerospace facility in Garden Grove continued to raise concerns overnight. The Orange County Fire Authority said around 6:30 a.m. Friday that evacuation orders were being reissued “due to changing conditions” as hazmat crews continued […]

Thousands of residents were evacuated after a 34,000-gallon storage tank spewed toxic chemicals into the air in Garden Grove Thursday. The toxic leak was reported at the GKN Aerospace facility at 12122 Western Ave. around 3:30 p.m. Orange County Fire Authority crews responded to the facility and determined the tank was leaking methyl methacrylate, a […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is in a spat with a major oil company over who is to blame for the state’s high gas prices, with the Democratic governor’s office urging drivers not to fill up at Chevron stations over Memorial Day weekend. “Pro tip: unbranded gas comes from the same refineries, […]

This past Sunday, I found myself walking across the snowless ski runs of Sierra-at-Tahoe in California, which sits on public land in the El Dorado National Forest. I had come to chase down a rumor. Numerous Tahoe-area residents had told me the Forest Service’s plan to spray the controversial herbicide glyphosate—part of the agency’s forest […]