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Tuesday, March 17

The Oregonian: Drone footage shows herculean effort to remove 60 acres of logs from popular Clackamas County boating spot

The Guardian: Afghanistan says 400 killed in strike by Pakistan on Kabul hospital

KQED: San Francisco Leaders Hope to Spark City’s Cannabis Scene

The Oregonian: Scream clubs offer high-decibel stress relief

The Oregonian: Sheriff’s divers find infant’s body in Oregon river, say dad confessed to child’s killing

OPB: Mystery orcas from afar thrill Seattle-area whale watchers

SF Gate: Calif. men accused of roughhousing in museum, shattering mammoth tusk

KTLA: High gas prices spark debate over California’s gas tax

KRCR: Shasta County accuses local gun club of damaging Clear Creek

AP News: Thousands of workers strike at one of the largest meatpacking plants in the US

Action News Now: Shasta County's True North Behavioral Campus denied state funding

San Jose Mercury News: Popular Bay Area oceanfront park to triple in size under proposed deal

San Jose Mercury News: 30 tons of steel: Inside a $3.5 million California fire-resistant house

KRON: Snow resorts suffer as Lake Tahoe region sees unprecedented warm temperatures

SF Gate: Controversial oil drilling resumes off Calif. coast as gas prices spike

SF Gate: 110 planned homes near Yosemite National Park spark controversy

SF Gate: Hawaii storm dumps up to 46 inches of rain, breaks decades-old record

KRON: $7 gas at Bay Area station shocks drivers: ‘Never seen anything like this’

Thursday, March 12

BBC: Suspect who attacked Michigan synagogue is dead and security guard injured, police say

NY Times : Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

Washington Post: A record heat dome is about to hit the West — in March

AP News: Human waste backing up in basements is a gut-churning sign of US infrastructure problems

The Guardian: New satirical statue depicts Trump and Epstein as doomed lovers from Titanic

The Guardian: Noma chef resigns amid allegations of physical abuse of staff

AP News: Robot rabbits the latest tool in Florida battle to control invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades

Politico Magazine: Why DOJ Hasn’t Charged Anyone Else From the Epstein Files

The Atlantic: The Real Reason California Can’t Build

The Hill: What to know about cychlorphine, the synthetic opioid 10 times stronger than fentanyl

The Hill: Rahm Emanuel’s prescription for inflicting pain on Trump over Iran

The Guardian: The California town that lost its mayor to gun suicide

OPB: No Nobles Day: Britain's Parliament boots its last hereditary Lords after 700 years

OPB: How Oregon scientists are solving the problem of Crater Lake’s dying trees

The Guardian: ‘Unbelievably unequal’: report shows how 1% of Mexicans own 40% of country’s wealth

The Guardian: Republican farm bill criticized as agribusiness giveaway: ‘pesticide industry wishlist’

NPR: El Niño is set to take hold this summer, driving up global temperatures

NPR: Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

The Guardian: Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US

The Guardian: Dismay as ancient heritage sites across Iran damaged in US-Israel bombing

KRCR: 15-year-old arrested in Hoopa shooting; two other suspects still sought

The Oregonian: Stowaway fox travels from England to US

KRCR: Redwood parks flag tribal history books amid Trump order to remove 'disparaging' material

KTLA: Orange County man dies after being bitten by venomous rattlesnake

KTLA: Dozens of missing kids, some abused and trafficked, rescued in Southern California

KTLA: Voting opens for California’s best state parks of 2026

Yahoo News: California bill targets toxic chemicals in receipts to protect workers, shoppers

Action News Now: Removing fluoride from the City of Oroville's water

Marin Independent Journal: Marin Holocaust survivor’s story gets made into film

KRON: Thousands to celebrate Oakland’s Alysa Liu for historic gold medal at Olympics

East Bay Times: Video: Fremont robbery crew cleans out $1.7 million in 70 seconds

SF Gate: New Calif. study links cannabis vaping to violent vomiting syndrome