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Sign in West Coyote Hills advertising proposed trails. (Photos: Fullerton Observer) For 50 years, West Coyote Hills in Fullerton, California, has faced the threat of development. The 510-acre open space is a former oil field owned by Chevron-Pacific Coast Homes and surrounded by parts three cities- La Mirada, Buena Park and La Habra.Now, after 25…

Heishman started working with Duel Brown, the Pawnee County conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, who helped find practical ways to improve the property. Retired Marine Corps veteran Brian Heishman has been slowly turning a 400-acre ranch near Pawnee, Oklahoma, into a cedar forest for five years. An overgrown property, choked by Eastern Red…

A Chinese student studying in Canada has been arrested in the US for espionage-like activities as he was seen taking photographs of planes, freight, etc. A Chinese student studying at a Canadian university has been arrested in the United States after US authorities accused him of taking photographs at airports and freight facilities at the…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A proposal that began as a fight for affordable housing in a Long Island community in 1978 has finally resulted in 145 affordable homes. Matinecock Court, a nearly $98 million affordable housing development in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, was completed in 2026 after decades of legal and political obstacles….

A drought-hit community in northern Chile has found an unusual source of water in something that usually passes unnoticed. On the hills above Peña Blanca, in the Coquimbo region, giant mesh nets are positioned to intercept coastal fog, locally known as camanchaca, as it moves inland from the Pacific. Tiny droplets suspended in the fog…

Quote of the day by Arnold Schwarzenegger (Image: Wikipedia) Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s quote is a genuinely powerful reminder about individuality, courage and finding real opportunity precisely where other people are not already looking. “Never follow the crowd, go where it’s empty,” he wrote in his 2012 memoir, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story, a line…

FaZe Banks has shared his side of the story about what led to the end of FaZe Clan, and his comments have sparked a major reaction. During a recent Market Bubble Twitch livestream, Banks claimed that former FaZe members, including Stable Ronaldo, were part of the problem. He also said that FaZe invested around $11…

In 2002, South Australia sank ex-HMAS Hobart in under 3 minutes A 134-metre decommissioned guided-missile destroyer lying 30 metres below the surface of Yankalilla Bay has become one of South Australia’s most diverse marine habitats, less than two decades after it was deliberately sunk. The ex-HMAS Hobart was scuttled on 5 November 2002. It sank…

Ricky Hatton’s luxury mansion sells for £1.5m after £350,000 price cut. (Photo: Getty Images/Rightmove) The luxury mansion belonging to late boxing legend Ricky Hatton has finally been sold for £1.5 million, £350,000 below its original asking price, according to Land Registry documents cited by the Daily Mail.The five-bedroom detached property in Gee Cross, Greater Manchester,…

​Isabel Getty, great-granddaughter of J. Paul Getty, begins a new chapter with British financier Faris McKinnon. (Photo: Instagram) Isabel Getty, the 32-year-old great-granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, has married British financier Faris McKinnon in an intimate ceremony in London. The billionaire heiress looked elegant in a white skirt suit paired with striking cobalt…