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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Sacramento Bee: California loaned PG&E $1.4B to keep Diablo Canyon open. Can the utility pay it back?

The Oregonian: How to explore Oregon’s massive new Dark Sky Sanctuary

KRON: Off-duty Sonoma deputy saves woman from burning home: SCSO

LA Times: Yes, beavers can help stop wildfires. And more places in California are embracing them

LA Times: Biden, at risk with young voters, is racing to shift marijuana policy

LA Times: Where is the nation’s lowest job growth? Look no further than rural California

KTLA: Egg prices near historic highs for Easter

KRCR: Driver flees crash in Castella, leaving 17 passengers hurt or killed

KRCR: New California law mandates drink testing kits at bars starting in July

KRCR: Understanding Humboldt County's emergency due to ongoing landslides

LA Times: 2 people rescued, multiple missing as major Baltimore bridge hit by ship

LA Times: MedMen’s fall shows the difficulties of the legal weed business

Press Democrat: Young ‘hero’ Half Moon Bay lifeguard recounts saving father and son from relentless rip currents

East Bay Times: Opinion: How a California climate win could end up destroying rainforests

Press Democrat: Brothers tried to fight off mountain lion during fatal attack in El Dorado County, family says

East Bay Times: Andy Warhol ‘Mao’ screen print, estimated at $50,000, taken from California college vault

Courthouse News Service: DOJ: California Corrections facial hair ban amounts to religious discrimination

Courthouse News Service: Tribal health care funding fight splits Supreme Court

SF Chronicle: Mountainous national monument on California-Oregon border survives major legal challenge

SFGate: 'Significant late-season storm' poised to soak California

East Bay Times: ‘There Ought to be a Law’: Bay Area contestant inspires bill to protect California schools from wildfire

East Bay Times: Bird flu is decimating seal and sea lion colonies. Scientists don’t know how to stop it

SF Chronicle: South Bay teacher arrested in alleged rape of student two decades ago

SF Chronicle: Crime in Oakland has been rising. These charts show how trends vary by neighborhood

SF Chronicle: Is wine the ‘2024 cigarette’? Younger generations say all alcohol is ‘literally poison’

SF Chronicle: California brothers identified in deadly mountain lion attack hunted and fished ‘almost daily’

SFGate: After closures and controversy, Santa Cruz mountain resort awaits rebirth

SFGate: Dreamstar's SF-LA night train signs 'collaboration' with Union Pacific

AP News: Cargo ship hits Baltimore’s Key Bridge, bringing it down. Rescuers are looking for people in water

Sunday, March 24, 2024

SF Chronicle: Bandages, balloons, bullet casings: Here’s how much trash is on the Pacific Crest Trail

KOMO : Beyond sticker shock: Exploring the factors behind soaring grocery prices

NY Times: The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies

Washington Post: Landlines are dying out. But to some, they’re a lifeline.

Cal Matters: California offers health insurance for as little as $10 a month. Some pay more in tax penalties

NBC News: The last time a Trump company went public it didn't go well for investors

Politico: Judge permits Gaetz, Greene to sue California cities that canceled their events

NPR: If you recently sold your home, you might get part of your realtor fee back

NPR: Israeli settlers step up attacks on Palestinian farms, expanding West Bank outposts

Oregon Public Broadcasting: New exhibit at Bend’s High Desert Museum highlights Indigenous perspectives on Sasquatch

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Tribes oppose federal offshore wind projects in Oregon and California

AP News: What is Palm Sunday and how is it celebrated worldwide?

Popular Mechanics: Can America’s Elite Smokejumping Forces Still Protect a World on Fire?

The Guardian: Kuru: unravelling the mystery disease that left entire Papua New Guinean villages without women

AP News: ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ gifted home 85 years after racist mob drove family away

The Guardian: We think loneliness is in our heads, but its source lies in the ruin of civil society

Ars Technica: Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default

AP News: Memorial marks 210th anniversary of crucial battle between Native Americans and United States

The Oregonian: $700k embezzled from Oregon junior baseball groups, treasurer arrested, police say

The Oregonian: Portland firefighter who locked pot thief in cargo container guilty of kidnapping, jury rules

The Guardian: ‘At war with myself’: with gambling on the rise in the US, young addicts seek solace in an old program