Orange County has approved the "preliminary master plan" for Great Park and Gov. Schwarzenegger has renewed all 23 expiring Enterprise Zones. In El Dorado County, the revised EIR for a new Highway 50 freeway interchange has been upheld while the EIR for the Salton Sea offers 10 alternatives for the lake's future. >>read more

Proposition 90 may have lost, but it hasn't gone away for good. It is likely to be back in 2008. >>read more

In one of the first published opinions upholding an environmental impact report's water analysis, the Third District Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court's ruling favoring opponents of a gravel mine proposed in Placer County. >>read more

A dispute between owners of property in northern San Diego County and a public utility district is headed for a new trial after the Fourth District Court of Appeal overturned a $2.3 million award of damages and compensation to the property owners. >>read more

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's determination that listing the Sierra Nevada Mountain yellow-legged frog as an endangered species was "warranted but precluded" has been rejected by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. >>read more

A final rundown of city- and county-level ballot measures from all over the state. >>read more

It's a little hard to make out the houses in aerial photographs of the 1997 flood in south Yuba County. Only after a minute or two do we realize that we are not looking at floating detritus, but at the rooftops of homes nearly submerged in the brown water. >>read more

Voters who decided local land use ballot measures in November showed slow-growth tendencies. They also displayed more than a little unpredictability, suggesting that nothing in local land use politics is certain, or at least certain forever. >>read more

A state appellate court panel has chastised the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) for ignoring the California Environmental Quality Act during reviews of timber harvest plans. >>read more

A taxpayer lawsuit challenging the City of Seaside's discounted sale of 105 acres of the closed Fort Ord military base to housing developers appears headed for trial. >>read more