Traffic crawls along Interstate 5 in Los Angeles on Sept. 1, 2006. Interstate 5 is California's most congested, according to new data from the state Department of Transportation.

New York may become the first state to ban tiny plastic microbeads found in hundreds of facial scrubs, soaps and toothpastes.

A civic group is proposing that parts of 20 Chicago streets, including the city’s vaunted Magnificent Mile, be turned into “car-free” zones — which could mean complete bans on all trafffic to the more modest dead-ending of a street into a plaza.

For the past three years, Rob McFarland has kept a beehive filled with 25,000 bees on the roof of his house smack in the middle of Los Angeles.