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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…

With California’s coast getting pounded by strong waves amid a strengthening El Niño, residents and government leaders are turning to big rocks and seawalls to protect homes and keep a railroad from falling into the sea. But there is growing concern this defensive strategy will end up harming California’s famed sandy beaches. “It’s kind of…