Fish migration on California’s second-largest river has been blocked by dams for more than a century. With the last of four dams removed, Native Americans who depend on the river have achieved a major victory.
Communities around the nation now have greater authority to penalize and detain those who live and sleep in open spaces because of a June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. This has put many of hundreds of thousands of homeless people in America in a difficult situation.Angelina Bagdasaryan looks at what California – a state with one of the country’s biggest homeless populations – is doing to address the problem.
The long-dreamed of flying cars could soon be a reality. Matt Dibble reports from California on the rise of electric aircraft.
Three Afghan and Ukrainian refugee students have received scholarships from a private high school in California.
This month, an automated restaurant in Pasadena, California, will open. Robots that make food in the kitchen and AI that takes orders will work at CaliExpress. Assembling and packing the food will be the only job left for humans to complete
With a floral float in the annual Rose Parade, Armenian Americans in Southern California celebrated their culture and moving on from a traumatic year that saw the excodus of Armenians from their former enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh inside the borders of Azerbaijan.
In 2024, two brothers who immigrated to California from Syria will share $1 million. The bonus is from the state lottery for selling the winning ticket of the second-largest Powerball jackpot ever.
There’s a neighborhood in Orange County, California, called Little Arabia, since the majority of the people living there are Afghan and Palestinian.With Cameraperson Vazgen Varzhabetian, Angelina Bagdasaryan visited the neighborhood and spoke with locals about the situation in the Middle East.
An Islamic community in California is promoting awareness of domestic violence during Ramadan. VOA’s Genia Dulot reports on a domestic violence shelter in San Diego that caters to Muslim immigrants.
Little Arabia, a small community outside of Los Angeles where people of Arabian descent own and operate a number of eateries and stores.Explore how this neighborhood has developed over the past 30 years and about the effort to make it an official tourist destination.