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Shasta Lake Has Now Claimed Four Lives in Less Than Six Weeks This Summer
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (198+ words) Active NorCal Shasta Lake has now claimed four lives in less than six weeks The man who drowned at the lake on the Fourth of July has been identified as 49-year-old Antonio Fernandez of Oakland, the fourth person to die…...
The Monsoon Is Finally Reaching California, and It May Bring Fire Before Rain
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (243+ words) The season’s first monsoon is finally pushing into California, but the storms it carries may do more to raise fire danger than to break the summer heat. The National Weather Service expects warmer, drier conditions to settle in starting Thursday,…...
Environmental Groups Accuse Gavin Newsom of Strong-Arming the Judge in the Sites Reservoir Fight
3+ hour, 11+ min ago (285+ words) A multi-billion-dollar plan to pull water from the Sacramento River is now at the center of a political firestorm. Two environmental groups are accusing Governor Gavin Newsom and several top state officials of pressuring an independent judge to rewrite her…...
A Wildfire Bill Is Splitting Northern California Over the Shasta-Trinity Forest
2+ day, 36+ min ago (242+ words) Active NorCal A bill pitched as a shield against catastrophic wildfire is dividing Northern California over the future of forests like the Shasta-Trinity The Fix Our Forests Act has lawmakers and conservationists lining up on opposite sides, each claiming the…...
A New Study Says California's Wolves Are Living Mostly on Cattle
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (241+ words) A New Study Says California’s Wolves Are Living Mostly on Cattle Active NorCal California's gray wolves are back, and a new study suggests their recovery is being fueled largely by beef UC Davis research that found cattle DNA in 72 percent…...
Scientists Are Watching for a Mega El Nino That Could Reshape California's Winter
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (248+ words) California just clawed its way out of a dry stretch, and now scientists are watching the Pacific for a pattern big enough to earn a new nickname. The talk this week is of a possible Mega El Nino, and it…...
Oakland Man Drowns at Shasta Lake While Helping Kids on the Fourth of July
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (266+ words) A Fourth of July gathering at Shasta Lake ended in tragedy when a 49-year-old Oakland man drowned while swimming across a cove near Old Man Campground, adding another name to what has become one of the deadliest years on Northern…...
Man Loses Hand After Fireworks Debris Explodes During Northern California Beach Cleanup
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (273+ words) The trash left behind by Fourth of July celebrations is usually just an eyesore. On one Del Norte County beach this year, it was a live explosive. Jason Turner was walking Point St. George Beach in Crescent City with his…...
Yurok Tribe Tracks a Staggering 95% Kelp Collapse Along the Northern California Coast
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (246+ words) Beneath the surface off the Yurok coast, an entire forest has nearly vanished. The kelp that once sheltered fish, abalone and a whole way of life has thinned to a shadow of what it used to be. The Yurok Tribe’s…...
A New Film Revisits the Upside-Down Flag Protest in Yosemite That Grabbed the Nation’s Attention
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (261+ words) An upside-down American flag hanging from the granite face of El Capitan is not something you forget. When a group of Yosemite climbers unfurled one last year, the image raced across the country and turned a wall of rock into…...