By: Raul Riesgo Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to travel from downtown Los Angeles to a farm several hours away. The farm tour was part of an effort by farmers to build bridges with people like me who live in cities and have very little understanding or appreciation of our California-grown food supply. […]

In 2004, voters passed the Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63) to help counties pay for the treatment of the mentally ill by taxing high-income residents. The proposition has generated billions of dollars to the counties across the state, but much of it has remained unspent. According to the Los Angeles Times, $1.6 billion was […]

Tech mogul Larry Ellison, the co-founder of computer software giant Oracle Corp., has funded what could be a pioneering cancer research center that will open next April. The Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC will be located at 12414 Exposition Boulevard, near Bundy Drive and near a light-rail stop, in the highly […]

The Los Angeles River opened to the public for the summer on Memorial Day. Residents are able to do things such as fish or kayak in the Sepulveda Basin and Elysian Valley until Sept. 30, when the river will be closed again to the public. Despite the river being open, some people are wondering whether […]

According to a survey by the Pest Control Operators of California (PCOC), the state is experiencing an upward trend in reports of rodent and bed bug infestations. The most frequently reported pest problem continues to be ants. The finds are part of the PCOC’s “What’s Bugging California Survey, 2018,” the first annual industry survey of […]

Last month, California legislators called for more resources to fight cross-border sewage flow and other contaminants that threaten area beaches and one of California’s few remaining salt marshes. State Senator Ben Hueso (D-San Diego) asked Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration to take legal action against the federal government to bring more focus and resources to protect […]

By: Renee Pinel A recent opinion article on glyphosate is a classic example of the environmental community’s awkward relationship with science and facts (“Don’t let EPA and Monsanto hide the truth on Roundup,” Viewpoints, Jan. 17). When it comes to climate change, the enviros are all in. But for everything else, science apparently doesn’t matter. […]

Now that recreational marijuana is legal in California this year, some people are wondering what will be the next drug to be decriminalized in the state. Magic mushrooms may be the next drug to be decriminalized with the help of one man who has been pushing for the state to become the first to decriminalize […]

A warning for people that may overly use marijuana, it may lead to a syndrome that causes vomiting. The obscure syndrome is called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome and it is a condition that has only recently been acknowledged by the medical community. However, it seems to affect a small population of marijuana users who smoke multiple […]

In early August, three friends from Salt Lake City visited San Diego for the Metallica concert at Petco Park and two of them unknowingly went back home with hepatitis A. Mike Johnson, 43, was diagnosed with hepatitis A on Sept. 14th, a little more than a month after his trip to San Diego. His eyes […]