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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Washington Gov. Inslee signs fentanyl bill sending money to disproportionately affected tribes

Oregon Public Broadcasting: ‘Salmon Wars’ episode 3: The court battles

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Intel announces $36B Hillsboro investment following federal funding commitments

NY Times : Fossil Trove From 74,000 Years Ago Points to Remarkably Adaptive Humans

Yahoo News: Biden Suggests a Bigger Federal Role to Reduce Housing Costs

NY Times : A Mexican Drug Cartel’s New Target? Seniors and Their Timeshares

Fast Company: Reddit stock price today will be closely watched as NYSE trading begins in much-hyped IPO

The Guardian: Elon Musk’s Neuralink shows brain-chip patient playing online chess

Politico: National debate over transgender athletes comes to New York City

The Hill: Supreme Court unanimously rules against government in No Fly List case

AP News: 2 hospitalized, 27 safe after rowing club boats capsize off Connecticut

Politico: ‘Fear’ and farmland in the Montana Senate race

The Hill: California voters approve measure requiring counties to address mental health crisis

AP News: Homelessness, affordable-housing shortage spark resurgence of single-room ‘micro-apartments’

The Guardian: A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands

AP News: California wants to pay doctors more money to see Medicaid patients

The Guardian: I discovered why seemingly healthy amphibians were being wiped out

Action News Now: Woman arrested after leading officers on 120 mph chase in Redding

KRCR: Spike in popularity: Redding community rallies to expand sand volleyball's footprint

BBC: How these Canadian cows are burping less methane

The Guardian: Two men swapped at birth – one Indigenous, one white – finally get apology

The Guardian: Comic-themed bibs contaminated with harmful PFAS, California lawsuit alleges

BBC: Reddit IPO: Share sale values social media firm at $6.4bn

BBC: India in undersea race to mine world’s battery metal

Courthouse News Service: Wolf trapping blocked in much of Idaho to protect threatened grizzlies

The Guardian: Donald Trump to make $3bn if shareholders back plan to float Trump Media

AP News: Escaped white supremacist inmate and accomplice still at large after Idaho hospital ambush

The Oregonian: Here’s what happens when GPS sends big trucks to historic covered bridges

Courthouse News Service: UN report: E-waste growing five times faster than electronics recycling

San Luis Obispo Tribune: Videos: See damage to SLO Cal Poly dorms after St. Patrick’s Day partying trashes campus

AP News: Taps have run dry across South Africa’s largest city in an unprecedented water crisis

Sacramento Bee: Court upholds California rules to protect fish, but Newsom wants lenient Delta approach

Courthouse News Service: Shifts in demographics could significantly alter global society, new study predicts

Courthouse News Service: Bond measure aimed at addressing homelessness, mental health in California passes

LA Times: Trans man beaten and arrested by sheriff’s deputy asks judge to be declared innocent

SFGate: Yurok Tribe to take back 125 acres, create new national park entrance

KTLA: Teen girl dies after alleged fight with bullies at South L.A. high school

LA Times: America’s four most polluted national parks are in California, study finds

LA Times: Mystery among the vines: Why is the FBI probing some of Napa Valley’s fanciest wineries?

KRON: Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter accused of ‘massive theft’ from the Dodgers star

KRON: Santa Rosa couple faces losing home over home insurance coverage denial

SFGate: California's notoriously strong cannabis is suddenly getting weaker. Or is it?

East Bay Times: Large Bay Area Genentech facility purchased by Swiss firm

East Bay Times: Cannabis delivery driver, attempted robber dead after Pleasant Hill shootout, police say

East Bay Times: Syphilis outbreak reported in Santa Cruz County

Press Democrat: North Bay Organizing Project receives $2 million grant from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott

SF Chronicle: The entrance to Redwood National Park will soon change. Here’s how

East Bay Times: Concord approves concepts for billion-dollar, 40-year development at Naval Weapons Station site

SFGate: 3-year-old at wheel of truck that fatally struck toddler in California, officials say

SFGate: Hourslong police chase through Bay Area cities exceeds 160 mph, 5 arrested