Charles Lee

Dumping billions of gallons of water out to sea in the midst of a lingering drought is South Florida's water-supply irony. Drought concerns quickly can become flooding scares in the course of a summer afternoon downpour because there's not enough water...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- The man who invented the cold treatment Zicam has pleaded guilty to trying to sell an unapproved drug for the treatment of bird flu. 57-year old Charles B. Hensley was arrested in June on federal charges of illegally importing...

Farmworks: At a gathering of Los Angeles community gardeners, the nonprofit group Farmworks spreads its idea of giving at-risk youth a shot at the restaurant industry by giving them an appreciation for how food is grown, harvested and brought to the...

Joan Grabel: Joan Grabel, the designer behind Park Slope Design, makes over the landscape around a Los Feliz house whose owners wanted a sustainable plant palette, a new swimming pool, dining and sitting areas and barbecue. Bonus: a water wall that...

Movie palaces: The opulent movie palaces and vaudeville halls of downtown Los Angeles may be monuments to a bygone era, but they are still keeping their ties to Hollywood....

The guests will be state Rep. Scott Randolph, a Democrat; former state Sen. Lee Constantine, a Republican; Dan Peterson and Doug Doudney of Coalition for Property Rights; Charles Lee of Audubon of Florida; and Ann Hellmuth of the League of Women Voters of...

Talk of drilling in the Everglades seems to be all the rage nowadays. As I mentioned last week, the idea isn’t really new at all. Florida has done it before. And John Mica has been talking for decades about doing it again. It’s just that,...

Editor: I'm curious why gas prices per gallon in Charlevoix are the same as metro Detroit in the winter, but during the summer the cost is usually 30 cents per gallon higher. Can someone please justify these prices for me? I realize the price in the...

Chuck Allen, a onetime high school surfing coach in Southern California who established amateur surfing and snowboarding groups that organized and elevated the sports, has died. He was 74. Allen, who was the special events manager at Mountain High Resort...

Gov. Rick Scott Tuesday appointed five people to the South Florida Water Management District’s board, continuing his push to reshape the agency charged with protecting water supplies, guarding against flooding and leading Everglades restoration....

The new leader of the South Florida Water Management District on Thursday tried to downplay environmentalists’ concerns that state spending cuts will bring Everglades restoration to a grinding halt. Melissa Meeker, who held a top post in the...

Kirby Green, the head of the St. Johns Water Management District had a “My Word” piece this morning, urging Floridians to work on their water conservation. Maybe it's just me, but ever since the district gave the Niagara bottled-water...