Battle over Pebble Mine shifts to EPA
Tribal leaders who are battling plans for Pebble Mine, a $300-billion copper, molybdemum and gold deposit at the headwaters of Bristol Bay--home of the world's biggest sockeye salmon runs--are...
View ArticlePacific Time podcast: Perspective on a decade of peril in South L.A.
Times staff writer Scott Gold, who spent all of 2009 reporting on the progress, promise and peril in South Los Angeles, talks about the South L.A. of the mid-1980s, an environment so infused with...
View ArticleCabo San Lucas Picante sportfishing still going strong
Outposts will attempt to post the Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, saltwater sportfishing report, courtesy of Team Picante from Picante Sportfishing, each week: Cabo fishing is still hot. The fishing has been...
View ArticleNo Surprises Dept.: Hollywood killing 3-D golden goose faster than expected
Whenever Hollywood finds a new cash cow, it dives in and loots its riches faster than any pickpocket on the planet. That's what the movie industry has been doing with its much-ballyhooed 3-D...
View ArticlePETA takes shot at 'American Idol' singer Kristy Lee Cook's new hunting...
Only one episode of "American Idol" contestant Kristy Lee Cook's new hunting show, "Goin' Country with Kristy Lee Cook," aired on Versus before the animal rights organization People for the Ethical...
View ArticleThursday: Chat with Christopher Goffard
Christopher Goffard spent the last two years tracking participants in a Los Angeles County program aimed at helping the 50 most vulnerable people on downtown L.A.'s skid row. His four-part series on...
View ArticleAfter a Times profile, Haitian amputee is on her way to Israel for care
On Feb. 17, Mitchell Landsberg told the story of Sounlove Zamour, a 19-year-old who lost both legs and her father in the Haitian earthquake in January. She is one of many new amputees in Haiti whose...
View ArticleJapan fishing club takes lead on Day Two of the Hawaiian International...
Only one fish was boated on Day Two of the Hawaiian International Billfish tournament taking place through Friday off Kailua-Kona, but it was enough to help secure the standings lead for the team...
View ArticleUniversal says Dustin Hoffman 'might' end up in 'Little Fockers' after all
Universal's big holiday comedy, "Little Fockers," the latest in the studio's "Meet the Parents" series, is still months away from release, but it's already been cast as a troubled production by a...
View ArticleUSLA National Lifeguard Championships taking place Thursday through Saturday...
More than 1,000 adult and youth lifeguards from across the nation are expected to compete for individual and team honors at the United States Lifesaving Assn. National Lifeguard Championships, taking...
View ArticleJournalists under fire in Mexico as drug war rages on
The kidnapping by a drug gang of four reporters has highlighted the dangers journalists face every day in Mexico. Since the start of President Felipe Calderon's assault on drug-trafficking cartels in...
View ArticleFirearms industry responds to petition filed with EPA seeking to ban lead...
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, stated its opposition to a petition filed Tuesday with the...
View ArticleGuillermo del Toro negotiating video game deal with THQ
Ben Fritz, who covers the business of show business for the Company Town blog, drops by the Hero Complex with a scoop about Guillermo del Toro, who might have been a disappointed tourist in Middle...
View ArticleFall Hunting Classic begins Friday at Bass Pro Shops
The annual Fall Hunting Classic, a series of hunting-related seminars, workshops and activities, begins this Friday at Bass Pro Shops. The Rancho Cucamonga store is expecting more than 100,000...
View ArticleFIRST LOOK: Captain Marvel takes flight -- but will he ever reach the big...
Will we ever hear the word "Shazam!" on the big screen? In the the golden age of the 1940s, Captain Marvel outsold Superman for a time and the concept of the character -- a youngster who utters a...
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