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SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CA- APRIL 11: Ale Macias, assistant vector ecologist, blows into a container to free the remaining Aedes mosquitoes, at a hotspot in Chino in San Bernardino County, CA on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District visited five hotspots in Chino, Upland and Rancho Cucamonga where, at each location, 1,050 sterilized Aedes males, also known as "ankle biters," were released to mate with females to lower the population. These invasive mosquitoes have become a nuisance and can spread chikungunya, dengue, yellow fever and Zika. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Mosquito season is upon us. So why are Southern California officials releasing more of them?

Vector control officials in Southern California are starting to release sterilized male mosquitoes to combat the summertime onslaught of ankle biters.

April 25, 2024
Lancaster, CA - September 27: A dog looks out of it's cage at the Lancaster Animal Care Center Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The Lancaster Animal Care Center's dog euthanasia figures are up. Lancaster and Palmdale euthanize the most dogs and at the highest rate of any other county shelter or major municipal shelter in the county. Together, their euthanasia rate has nearly doubled in recent years - from almost 15% in 2018 to 28% through August of this year. Lancaster has already put more dogs down this year than all of last year. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

California wants better animal shelter conditions, stray population curbed

April 24, 2024
File photo of a Southern California Steelhead trout. Southern California steelhead trout have been listed as endangered by the state. Environmental advocates say there is still hope the fish can recover.

Steelhead trout, once thriving in Southern California, are declared endangered

April 23, 2024
On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, joined by leaders from the Karuk, Yurok, Shasta Indian Nation and the Quartz Valley Indian tribes, CDFW released about 90,000 yearling coho salmon. It was the first major release of coho salmon, a state and federally listed threatened species, into the Klamath River since dam removal began in earnest late last year. The fish were trucked about 7 miles from CDFW's new, state-of-the-art Fall Creek Fish Hatchery in Siskiyou County and released following remarks and a Tribal blessing.

As salmon are released into the Klamath River, tribal leaders see a ‘symbol of hope’

April 21, 2024
NUEVO, CA - NOVEMBER 9, 2017: Chickens roam freely and also have access to the outdoors at one of the many hen houses at the MCM Poultry facility on November 9, 2017 in Nuevo, California.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Avian flu outbreak raises a disturbing question: Is our food system built on poop?

April 18, 2024

‘Scammed on the worst day of my life’: Pet owners say cremation service took their money, ghosted them

April 18, 2024

‘Nobody saw this coming’; California dairies scramble to guard herds against bird flu

April 14, 2024

Coastal salmon fishing banned for a second year amid steep population declines

April 11, 2024

Surrogate otter mom at Long Beach aquarium is rehabilitating pup ‘better than any human ever can’

April 11, 2024
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In this photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, juvenile Chinook salmon swim in a raceway at Iron Fish Gate Hatchery, Siskiyou County, Calif., before their relocation on July 7, 2021. Baby salmon are dying in the thousands in one river and an entire run of endangered salmon could be wiped out in another due to the blistering heat waves and extended drought in the U.S. West. Recently California fish and wildlife officials decided not to release more than 1 million hatchery-raised baby chinook salmon into the wild, and instead drove them to several hatcheries that could host them until Klamath River conditions improve. (Travis VanZant/CDFW via AP)

Climate & Environment

As fish deaths increase at pumps, critics urge California agencies to improve protections

Environmental groups are urging water managers to scale back pumping until juvenile salmon and steelhead have finished migrating through the delta and into San Francisco Bay.

April 8, 2024

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