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State lawmakers and many in the state’s oil and gas industry are still dissecting a speech Governor Sean Parnell gave to the Alaska Oil and Gas Association on Thursday in Anchorage. The governor told industry leaders that a gas line to the Lower 48...

Ports like Los Angeles and Long Beach are key to the global economy: crossroads where billions of dollars in cargo arrive and depart each year, floating on board thousands of vessels from all over the world. Increasingly, however, large ports are also...

When giant container ships sail into major ports like Los Angeles and Long Beach, it's not just clothing and cars that they deliver. They also carry critters. The specimens — microscopic algae cells or larger castaways, such as eggs of fish or...

It's fun for mayoral candidates to imagine eliminating potholes or building new trains to link the Valley to the Westside. It's not hard to support a spiffed-up LAX (really, what's hard to believe is that it's taken this long) or legions of new police...

$459 BOSTON, MASS. May 25-27. Visit this vibrant city that has its place as the very forefront of American history. Stroll Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, set around a cobblestone promenade where jugglers, magicians and musicians entertain passersby....

Saturday, April 6, 2013 COLLEGE BASEBALL Hagerstown Community College split a doubleheader with Dundalk on Saturday, winning the second game 3-2 after dropping the opener 2-1 in eight innings. In the victory for the Hawks (21-17), Eric...

SINGAPORE - Farmers from Australia to Europe to the United States are poised to reap the second-largest wheat crop on record as fields recover from drought and heat waves, boosting global stockpiles for the first time in four years. Output will climb 4....

At the first of two open houses designed to help dock owners navigate Newport Beach's new residential pier permitting process last week, a handful of residents sat scattered throughout the old City Council Chambers — not a huge turnout compared to...

Bargaining units for a clerical workers' union rejected a tentative labor agreement this week that that ended an eight-day strike that shut down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach late last year. The tentative contract, announced Dec. 4, intially...

It was during a visit to his mother's home in New Mexico last summer that Timothy Reddinger found his grandmother's set of fine china. His mother was downsizing and offered to give him the extravagant dinnerware. Reddinger was thrilled. The century-...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Two of the Great Lakes have hit their lowest water levels ever recorded, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Tuesday, capping more than a decade of below-normal rain and snowfall and higher temperatures that boost...

>> 20 Years Ago — Owners of the former Shippers Ice Plant building in Brawley say an uncertain future awaits the historic building that was charred in a fire earlier this year. Built in stages before its completion in the mid-1920s, the cavernous,...