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Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024

LA Times: ‘Why us?’: Housing nonprofits are paying millions in ‘mansion tax’

ABC News: Veterans train their own service dogs through Bay Area nonprofit

ABC News: Zoox robotaxis begin testing on San Francisco streets

LA Times: Online vape retailers ignore rules meant to protect minors, new UCSD study finds

East Bay Times: Dentists are pulling ‘healthy’ and treatable teeth to profit from implants, experts warn

East Bay Times: Trump has vowed to kill offshore wind in the US. Will he succeed?

KCRA: At-risk missing man last seen getting out of Uber in Auburn, sheriff's office says

Sacramento Bee: Top Sacramento nonprofit media organizations file dueling lawsuits over transmission tower

KRCR: Humboldt Coast Guard rescues three boaters on Klamath River near Wautec

KRCR: Media forced out by Sheriff during Shasta BOS meeting, lights out, protester arrested

KRCR: Missing hiker found after two days in Milsap Bar area

KRCR: $300,000 grant aims to support mental health services for CA Native American veterans

San Jose Mercury News: They didn’t create the homeless encampment. But one California couple just realized it’s on them to clean up.

SF Gate: Fortune picks 2 Bay Area cities as top affordable retirement spots

North Bay Biz Journal: Resistance to proposed Napa glamping resort grows

Marin Independent Journal: Surfers, who grew up in Marin, build and live the dream with wetsuit company

North Bay Biz Journal: Napa Valley estate once home to Two Buck Chuck producer hits the market at $35 million. Take a look around

North Bay Biz Journal: Providence to close 1 of its 2 Santa Rosa urgent care centers

East Bay Times: Prop 6: California voters reject measure to ban forced prison labor

East Bay Times: Just one homeless encampment created 155,000 pounds of debris by a California river

Chicago Tribune: Farming is more high-tech than ever. Just ask Land O’Lakes’ chief technology officer

Chicago Tribune: Illinois families adopt and train 59 miniature horses rescued from ‘gut-wrenching’ hoarding situation

SF Gate: There's an optical illusion hidden in San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid

SF Gate: Voters in California city reject measure allowing noncitizens to vote in local races

SF Gate: If you want luxury furniture for less, trek to a hidden Bay Area warehouse

East Bay Times: Deal reached to expand massive reservoir near Bay Area to increase water supplies

KPIX: 13-year-old San Jose girl wins top prize, $25,000 at Washington D.C. STEM competition

KPIX: Supporters of Prop. K, measure to close San Francisco's Great Highway to cars, declare victory

KRON: Delta plane clashes with food truck while landing in Sacramento

AP News: First emperor penguin known to reach Australia found on tourist beach

AP News: Haiti’s main airport shuts down as gang violence surges and a new prime minister is sworn in

Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024

Huffington Post: One Dead And 16 Hurt After A Shooting At Tuskegee University; Arrest Made

BBC: Teenage park ranger dies as wildfires burn in New York State

Phys.Org: How gophers brought Mount St. Helens back to life in one day

The Cooldown: Spiked boards of nails and screws are turning up on roads in the Oregon wilderness.

The Cool Down: Scientists make disturbing discovery after analyzing breath samples from dolphins: 'The impacts … are not yet known'

Washington Post: Australia is still logging the parks meant to become a koala reserve

NY Times : This Elephant Uses a Hose to Give Herself a Shower Every Day

NY Times : How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’

the Atlantic: AI: The Death of Search

Reuters: Judge to decide whether Trump's hush money conviction can stand

Smithsonian Magazine: When White Supremacists Staged the Only Successful Coup in U.S. History

Smithsonian Magazine: How the Berlin Wall Became a 100-Mile Bike and Pedestrian Trail

KOMO : 10 people stabbed in Seattle's CID within 37 hours, man in custody

Seattle Times: Teens flee police, then crash, killing 3 homeless people in Everett

Courthouse News Service: Judge says Wildlife Services can kill Montana grizzlies but orders further analysis

LA Times: 2 weeks after they inherited a home, the Mountain fire wiped away their fresh start

LA Times: San Francisco man arrested in connection with shooting incidents near UC Berkeley

Sacramento Bee: Medicare changes are next for Americans in retirement

Sacramento Bee: ‘We’re still here’: Sacramento embraces inaugural Native American Parade in heart of downtown