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Los Angeles, CA - June 27: A child follows a chimpanzee pass by the window of its enclosure at the Los Angeles Zoo on Friday, June 27, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times)
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Inside the L.A. Zoo’s messy $50-million breakup

The city’s contract with GLAZA, which governs fundraising, special events and more, ends Tuesday, leaving the zoo in a precarious place, with no firm plan for how to proceed.

Bakersfield, CA - February 29: A Hummingbird tends to her nest on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024 in Bakersfield, CA. (Alex Horvath / Los Angeles Times)

Hardcore birders and casual sparrow spotters: Science needs you

Santa Nella, CA- On June 29, 2025, at 5:30 pm, Deputy Ross was dispatched to the parking lot of the Taco Bell in Santa Nella to check on the welfare of several cats in a U-Haul Van. Deputy Ross observed at least 20 cats in distress through the vehicle’s window. Animal Control Officers Rafferty and Pacheco responded to the scene and located 106 extremely emaciated cats, as well as 28 deceased cats. No food or water was located inside the vehicle. All cats were seized and taken to the Merced County Animal Shelter.

Cats press against windshield of U-Haul van outside Taco Bell. Officers take 134 from vehicle

Los Angeles, CA - June 27: The front entrance of the Los Angeles Zoo on Friday, June 27, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times)

Planning a trip to the L.A. Zoo? It will now cost you a few dollars more

MARICOPA, CA - JULY 7: California Highway 166 winds its way downhill and into the dry Central Valley on July 7, 2021, near Maricopa, California. Due to a lack of rain and snow in the Sierra Nevada during the past two years, California is experiencing one of the driest and hottest periods of weather in recorded history, forcing municipalities and farmers in the Central Valley to rethink their uses of water. As of this date, Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a water "State of Emergency" for most state counties and has asked residents to reduce their use of water by 15%. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

A baby tiger was reported on the side of a California highway. The CHP found something very different

11 burglars repeatedly ransacked a California woman’s home. Then the bears came

Dwight Howard says beloved dog died in hit-and-run accident. ‘Who could be so heartless’

The numbers of gray whales migrating along the California coast continue to plummet

Irvine animal trainer and his girlfriend arrested in connection with death of 10 dogs

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Northern tidewater gobies release at Topanga Lagoon on June 17, 2025.

Climate & Environment

Endangered fish saved from the Palisades fire were just returned to their Malibu home

Hundreds of endangered tidewater gobies were returned to their home in Topanga Lagoon five months after being moved from the area in the wake of the Palisades fire.

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