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The ocean off the Palos Verdes Peninsula has become one of the key battlegrounds in the long-running effort to implement a state law designed to create a network of habitats off the California coast to protect depleted fish populations. The contentious debate over the size of the marine habitat in the waters around Rocky Point is emblematic of the disputes and hard-fought battles that have been waged since the Marine Life Protection Act was adopted in 1999. The waters off the promontory are abundant with marine life and have long been favored by sport and commercial fishing crews. But the...

PUERTO PENASCO, Mexico — Mexican President Felipe Calderon told U.S. governors Thursday that immigration is an inevitable, natural phenomenon and he urged the U.S. Congress to approve reforms that would allow more Mexicans to work legally north of the border. Calderon demanded that the United States respect "the right to work wherever one can make the greatest contribution." "Immigration is a natural phenomenon that is economically and socially inevitable," he told the meeting in this Baja California seaside resort town. In a rare acknowledgment of the costs of migration for Mexico, Calderon said his country "doesn't not celebrate migration ......

A meeting that begins today of governors from both sides of the international border may provide some new methods of fighting the methamphetamine problem. Gov. Janet Napolitano said some new laws in Mexico have altered the drug trade. Now, she said, the governors have to figure out how to deal with that. What has led to the change, Napolitano said, is a decision by Mexico to limit the amount of pseudoephedrine that can be imported into that country. That decongestant is the primary "precursor chemical'' in the making of methamphetamine. The White House had estimated more than 200 tons of...