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Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021

Denver Post: He’s been building a castle in the Colorado mountains for over 50 years.

KTLA: Newly discovered Comet Leonard to fly by Earth soon in once-in-a-lifetime event; how to see it

KTLA: Residents voice growing concern as wave of robberies across L.A. area continue

AP News: Trump media partner says it has lined up $1B in capital yesterday

Sacramento Bee: Four sports betting initiatives are heading toward California voters. Here’s what they would do

Press Democrat: The time a band of merry pranksters rewrote Sir Francis Drake’s history

Santa Cruz Sentinel: Santa Cruz housing development requirement expected to more than quadruple

Santa Cruz Sentinel: Thousands of farmworkers will get pay raises thanks to a lawsuit

LA Times: Editorial: Turns out Los Angeles voters do want denser housing in single-family neighborhoods

Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021

Daily Mail: Spate of robberies at marijuana stores in San Francisco Bay Area threatens the survival of businesses as one owner says 'it was safer to sell on the street': Gangs steal $5M worth of products and target dozens of shops

Washington Post: These whales are so decimated that a single birth was cheered by scientists

Washington Post: A northern New Mexico judge’s radical approach to addressing addiction: No jail time

Washington Post: Russia planning military offensive against Ukraine with up to 175,000 troops, U.S. intelligence warns

Washington Post: Snow may vanish for years at a time in Mountain West with climate warming

Washington Post: The principal is cleaning the bathroom: Schools reel with staff shortages

The Oregonian: Cases of chronic wasting disease in Idaho spark concerns in Oregon

AP News: EPA head: ‘Journey to Justice’ tour ‘really personal for me’

AP News: Penobscots don’t want ancestors’ scalping to be whitewashed

AP News: ‘We just feel it’: Racism plagues US military academies

Courthouse News Service: California touts major organized crime bust amid recent spike in retail thefts

The Hill: Nevada governor apologizes for state's role in indigenous schools

The Hill: Alarm grows over smash-and-grab robberies amid holiday season

NPR: Grab your camera and help science! King tides are crashing onto California beaches

NPR: Parents of the Michigan school shooting suspect have been captured in Detroit

KRCR: 20 Butte County people died via fentanyl-related overdoses by the end of Summer 2021

Sonoma Magazine: Truffle Hunters Strike Gold in Geyserville

Press Democrat: ‘Our industry is in deep trouble’: Cannabis leaders call for reduction of local, state taxes

Marin Independent Journal: News of Martin Scorsese’s planned Grateful Dead biopic sparks excitement, skepticism

San Jose Mercury News: Omicron outbreak in Alameda County linked to wedding in Wisconsin

San Jose Mercury News: With taxes going up, cannabis operators threaten ‘California Weed Party’

San Jose Mercury News: San Jose could end single-family zoning in historic neighborhoods

SFGate: 3rd worker at federal prison charged with sexual misconduct

SFGate: New drastic restrictions in Marin mark seriousness of the drought

SFGate: King tides over 7 feet to bring coastal flooding to SF Bay Area

SFGate: Bay Area CHP brings in helicopter to catch cyclist who ran red light

Friday, Dec. 3, 2021

Medford Mail Tribune: Driver sought, 116 lbs. of pot seized in Cave Junction

Courthouse News Service: LA’s Skid Row awash in meth and fentanyl, probe reveals

NPR: Hundreds of military families sickened by contaminated Pearl Harbor water

Survival International: Uncontacted tribe’s land invaded and destroyed for beef production

CNN: DeSantis proposes a new civilian military force in Florida that he would control

SFGate: Why the air in the Bay Area is so gross right now

SFGate: Suspect’s parents charged in Michigan school shooting

NY Times : Meet an Ecologist Who Works for God (and Against Lawns)

Washington Post: California school district will let unvaccinated students have in-person learning, defying state mandate

Washington Post: Lawmakers demand oil and gas firms divulge methane leak data

Washington Post: U.S. white supremacists blamed for targeting Aboriginal Australians with vaccine misinformation

Washington Post: ‘Flash mob’ robberies roiling U.S. retailers, traumatizing workers

NY Daily News: 21 weapons recovered at Brooklyn high school campus day after student caught with gun and $30,000

NPR: The final, anguished years of a warrior-scholar who exposed torture by U.S. troops

KTLA: Oregon officials ask public for help finding killers of 8 wolves