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The decision by Phillips 66 this week to shutter its refinery in Wilmington next year will wipe out more than 8% of the state's crude oil processing capacity.
Pacheco Adobe at Rancho Monte del Diablo is one of the numerous ranchos of California that are today California Historical Landmarks. Many of the foreign residents also became rancho grantees. Some were "Californios by marriage" like Stearns (who was naturalized in Mexico before moving north) and the Englishman William Hartnell. Others married ...
But history suggests we will forget the risks and rebuild the devastated areas. Abcarian: California's cycle of fiery destruction and reconstruction is longer than you might think Skip to main content
In California, residents also fought the American army. In 1847, Californios staged battles throughout Southern California against the American conquest, including the Battle of Los Angeles and the Battle of San Pasqual (present-day San Diego). The United States Navy, believing that cutting off supplies to the Californios would ensure their ...
The Los Vaqueros Reservoir and watershed is located in the northern Diablo Range, within northeastern Contra Costa County, northern California.It was completed by the Contra Costa Water District (CCWD) in 1998 (27 years ago) () to improve the quality of drinking water for its 550,000 customers in Central and Eastern Contra Costa County.
As the event has expanded and the subculture has spread, with weekend-long vaquero conventions now held in more than a dozen cities on both sides of the border, the gatherings have become a refuge ...
The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (M w ) or Richter magnitude (M L ) of 7.8; [ 7 ] however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. [ 8 ]
California water regulators are cracking down on a second farming area in the San Joaquin Valley for failing to take adequate steps to curb overpumping that is depleting groundwater, causing the ...