All posts tagged "California"

  • Founder and CEO of Youth Hope Summit celebrates with Hobart Boulevard Elementary School students on June 3, 2015 after a charitable shoe give away for low-income families. (Korea Times)
    14-year-old Amy Jang brings hope to low-income LA families with shoe giveaway

    By Brian Han LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Spirits were soaring in the Hobart Boulevard Elementary School auditorium Wednesday with over a hundred students waiting in anticipation for their name to be called out. Youth Hope Summit (YHS),...

    • Posted June 4, 2015
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  • rows of cargo containers. Fun fact: the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports handle about 40 percent of cargo for the entire country. (Courtesy of Dirk Dallas via Flickr/Creative Commons)
    Class-action lawsuit filed against Korean American trucking companies

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Three truck drivers, including one Korean American man, are suing six different Los Angeles-based trucking companies, including three operated by Korean Americans, for allegedly violating labor laws. The lawsuit alleges that...

    • Posted May 26, 2015
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  • In this April 3, 2015 aerial file photo, lush green golf courses border the edge of the desert in Palm Springs, Calif. Pressed by the fourth year of bone-dry weather and the threat of state-mandated water cuts, some of the poshest courses in California are ceding back to nature some of their manicured green, installing high-tech moisture monitoring systems and letting the turf they don't rip up turn just a little bit brown. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
    California golf courses tee up water-saving measures

    LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — At first glance, nothing seems amiss at this lush, members-only golf club in one of the priciest communities in Orange County. A bubbling fountain gurgles out of an artificial lake. Emerald-green fairways...

    • Posted May 13, 2015
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  • Monterey's Korean American community leaders pose in front of a newly acquired building that will serve as a hub of the Korean community.
    Monterey gets new Korean American community hub

    The Korean American Community Organization of Monterey County in California has secured its first building in its 41-year history, set to serve as a hub of the city’s Korean American community. The two-story, 5,400-square-feet space was purchased...

    • Posted April 17, 2015
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  • Snow is shown on a tree and on the ground in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., Monday, April 6, 2015. In the wake of an incredibly warm March, an unusually cold spring storm is rolling in. The strong and wet storm that will linger in Northern California through mid-week will do little to help the fix the drought. (AP Photo/Tahoe Daily Tribune, Isaac Brambila)
    Rain, winds headed to California, but little drought help

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown stood in dry brown grass at a site normally covered in snow this time of year and declared the drought conditions gripping the state at its worst point...

    • Posted April 6, 2015
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    Los Angeles agrees to spend $1 billion to fix sidewalks

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — The City Council on Wednesday agreed to spend more than $1 billion over 30 years to repair its sidewalks, settling a lawsuit filed by disabled residents who said they couldn’t navigate broken walkways,...

    • Posted April 1, 2015
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  • In this May 1, 2014 photo, irrigation water runs along the dried-up ditch between the rice farms to provide water for the rice fields in Richvale, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
    S. California to spend $71 million to battle drought

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – With the state facing a fourth straight drought year, the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) board voted today to spend up to $71 million to bolster the Southern California region’s available supply. The board’s vote authorizes...

    • Posted March 10, 2015
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