Caltrans announces Friday they’ve approved funding for the four lane expressway at the Cholame Y. The intersection best known for the fatal crash in 1955 which killed actor James Dean. The upgrade will include a flyover connection that routes Fresno-bound traffic from 46 east up and over the intersection to northbound 41.
The offshore auction for wind farms off the coast of San Simeon is nearly complete. Three leases off our coast went for $425 million dollars. The wind farms will go in about ten miles off the coast, out in the ocean.
Yesterday, NASA’s Orion space capsule made a safe landing in the pacific ocean off Mexico after a 25-day test flight to the moon. It splashed down near Guadalupe island west of Baja, California.
In Arizona, senator Kirsten Sinema announces that she is switching from a democrat to an independent. That’s just after she celebrated victory for winning the election as a democrat. It means democrats have a tenuous grip on the US senate majority.