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The California State Police (CSP) was the state-level security police agency from 1887 to 1995 for the U.S. state of California. It merged with the California Highway Patrol in 1995. Founded on March 15, 1887, the police agency primarily served to protect the State Capitol Building , the governor and other state officials, and other state ...
chp.ca.gov. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is the principal state police agency for the U.S. state of California. The CHP has primary patrol jurisdiction over all California highways and roads and streets outside city limits, and can exercise law enforcement powers anywhere within the state. The California Highway Patrol can assist local ...
Newhall incident. The Newhall incident, also called the Newhall massacre, was a shootout on April 5–6, 1970, in Valencia, California, [a] between two heavily armed criminals and four officers of the California Highway Patrol (CHP). In less than five minutes, the four CHP officers were killed and another man was pistol-whipped in what was at ...
Over the past three years, two massive fires — the 2020 Dome Fire and 2023 York Fire — ravaged the Mojave National Preserve, killing an estimated 2.5 million Joshua trees, according to Erin ...
Joshua trees have ordinarily been a protected species of tree. Avantus, the developer behind the project, received an exemption from Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Fish and Game ...
The Great Seal, or the Great Seal of the State of California as it is officially called, is the impression made on "all commissions, pardons and other public instruments to which the signature of the Governor is required" with the attestation of the Secretary of State; the impression, with or without "wafer," is made by a master die and counter die of an officially adopted design fixed in a ...
The goldspotted oak borer is just 14 miles from the Santa Monica Mountains' 600,000 oak trees and threatens to devastate forests throughout California, harming wildlife and increasing fire risks.
California quail. Callipepla californica. 1931. [4] Colors. Blue and gold. Blue represents the sky, and gold represents the color of the precious metal found by forty-niners in the state's hills. 1951. Crustacean.