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Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024

North Bay Biz Journal: Koi Nation one step away from approval of casino near Windsor

Press Democrat: St. Vincent de Paul High girls volleyball team wins a NorCal title — and gets a lesson in America’s culture wars

KCRA: A growing number of Oregon cities vote to ban psychedelic mushroom compound psilocybin

KRCR: Redding Garden of Lights vies for top spot in USA Today's holiday lights competition

KRCR: Listeria outbreak tied to Yu Shang Food leaves California infant dead and 10 people sick

KRCR: Army major with Humboldt ties honors Native American heritage while in uniform

SF Chronicle: A wave of Alzheimer’s disease is coming. Here’s what I wish I knew before my father got sick

ABC News: 2 die in storm flooding-related incidents in Sonoma County, officials say

East Bay Times: Two California men deemed sexually violent predators ordered to be conditionally released as transients

East Bay Times: When ‘compostables’ are actually garbage

East Bay Times: California’s Dungeness crab season delayed again

SF Gate: After landing at SFO, travelers can now buy weed just minutes away

SF Gate: Historic storm breaks 1,000-year rainfall record in parts of Bay Area

KRON: Stanford researchers map ‘White-Only’ properties in Santa Clara Co. using AI

KRON: Photos show dramatic before and after of Russian River overflowing in Guerneville

Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024

Vox: The stunning success of vaccines in America, in one chart

The Hill: FDA gives green light to PTSD marijuana study in veterans

Press Democrat: Live updates: Hundreds still without power in Sonoma, Napa counties

SF Chronicle: California Dungeness crab season could open in time for Christmas

SF Gate: California's iconic Avenue of Giants flooded as hurricane-force winds batter state

SF Gate: Santa Rosa just had second wettest day in 120 years

Washington Post: RFK Jr. weighs major changes to how Medicare pays physicians

The Guardian: Donald Trump announces Pam Bondi as new attorney general choice after Matt Gaetz steps aside

Politico: Biden inks billion-dollar climate deals to foil Trump rollbacks

Politico: Musk, Ramaswamy publish plan to slash workforce

Reuters: Putin says Russia fired medium-range missile at Ukraine, not an ICBM

Market Watch: Trump’s choice of TV’s ‘Dr. Oz’ to oversee Medicare and Medicaid could be ‘devastating’ for millions of Americans

NPR: A duct-taped banana sells for $6.2 million at an art auction

NPR: NC Senate leader defends move to strip power from Democrats as bill heads to governor

NPR: GOP lawmaker seeks bathroom restrictions on federal property

BBC: Inside South Africa's 'ruthless' gang-controlled gold mines

BBC: Fourth tourist dies after suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos

BBC: Las Vegas man who called 911 for help killed by police in his home

AP News: St. Louis was once known as Mound City for its many Native American mounds. Just one remains

The Guardian: Philadelphia jury awards $11m to man whose Sig Sauer pistol went off by itself

The Guardian: Republican who won county seat pleads guilty to sexual assault of daughter

The Guardian: Gaza food production ‘decimated’ with 70% of farmland hit, UN finds

KING5: Over 600,000 people lost power at peak of Washington windstorm

KING5: Eloise's Cooking Pot in Tacoma serves 75,000 people per month in need of food

AP News: $344 for a coffee? Scottish farm is selling UK’s most expensive cup

AP News: International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials

AP News: What will happen to CNBC and MSNBC when they no longer have a corporate connection to NBC News?

KPTV: ‘Bomb cyclone’ kills 2 and knocks out power to over half a million homes across the northwest US

The Oregonian: Big League Chew, invented on Portland baseball field, sues manufacturer in sticky trademark dispute

The Oregonian: Blizzard conditions close I-5 southbound at Oregon/California border Wednesday

The Guardian: Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn

KCRA: Palisades Tahoe’s new ski village approved in Placer County

KQED: San Francisco’s Wave Organ Brings Sounds of the Bay to Life

KQED: Heavy Rain Pounds Northern California, But the Worst Is Yet to Come

KCRA: Woman shot, killed during Sacramento County jewelry store robbery identified