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Bentonville, Arkansas - October 14, 2023: (Editors special note: This is a special assignment for the IT team. DO not use images for other stories or share with Getty before their project has been published.) Following the Southwest Dog Auction - dogs in cages are being transported inside a packed white van in Bentonville, Arkansas. (Francine Orr/ Los Angeles Times)

California’s underground puppy trade ‘raises serious alarms’ and demands for state action

A Times investigation of California’s underground puppy resale market “raises serious alarms about the inhumane treatment of pets,” Gov. Newsom’s office said.
A bear at a property in the 700 block of Alta Vista Drive in Sierra Madre.

Bears have learned to open doors in Sierra Madre, ‘like Jurassic Park.’ One made himself at home, literally

Sept. 21, 2024
PIXLEY, CA - MAY 20: Dairy cows feed at a farm west of Pixley, CA in Tulare County. Some town residents believe their health problems are owed to air pollutants from the nearby dairy facilities. The topography of the San Joaquin Valley contribute to the region's poor quality trapping dirty air from traffic on Interstate 5, State Route 99, locomotives and farming pollutants including open burning and emissions from dairy cows. Photographed in Pixley, CA on Saturday, May 20, 2023. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Number of California dairy herds infected with H5N1 bird flu rises to 17

Sept. 20, 2024
FILE - In this photo provided by the National Park Service is the Abyss Pool hot spring in the southern part of Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., in June 2015. Part of a human foot found in a shoe floating in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park earlier this year belonged to a 70-year-old man from Los Angeles who died in July, park officials said Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. They said they don't suspect foul play in the man's death but also didn't provide any more details. (Diane Renkin/National Park Service via AP, File)

Yellowstone visitor scalded in thermal pool hot enough to burn people to death. She broke the Pledge

Sept. 19, 2024
In this photo provided by Kunyakit Thanawtchaikun, a python coils itself around Arom Arunro's torso, squeezing her down to the floor of her kitchen in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Kunyakit Thanawtchaikun)

Huge python grabs Thai woman in her kitchen, squeezes her for hours before she can be freed

Sept. 19, 2024

‘It’s really sad’: River dries up abruptly in Bakersfield, leaving thousands of dead fish

Sept. 19, 2024

A California zoo, an advancing wildfire and a delicate rescue operation

Sept. 18, 2024

Endangered frogs threatened by California wildfires once again. A rescue could be in order

Sept. 15, 2024

California reports a total of eight H5N1 bird flu outbreaks among dairy herds

Sept. 13, 2024
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Bentonville, Arkansas - October 14, 2023: (Editors special note: This is a special assignment for the IT team. DO not use images for other stories or share with Getty before their project has been published.) Following the Southwest Dog Auction - dogs in cages are being transported inside a packed white van in Bentonville, Arkansas. (Francine Orr/ Los Angeles Times)

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Puppy pipeline: How we reported the story

The Times obtained scores of dog export records, law enforcement and animal control investigative files and federal inspection reports.

Sept. 12, 2024

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