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California water regulators have approved a permit for Sites Reservoir, clearing the way for construction of the state’s first new major reservoir in decades. Plans call for two large dams about 300 feet high, as well as nine smaller ones, holding water pumped from the Sacramento River and inundating about 15,000 acres in a valley…

Orange County — Post-Tropical Storm Rachel landed in northern Baja California overnight, generating waves expected to produce life-threatening surf and rip current conditions along the coast of Southern California and worsen already devastating coastal flooding and erosion. The storm was about 255 miles north-northeast of San Diego by 8 a.m. Sunday and was expected to…

MILLIONS of mortgage holders have been dealt a fresh blow after a major bank warned the Bank of England will hike interest rates not once, but…