Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Sunday, June 23
KOMO News: 368 quakes since February: Seismic activity shows signs of Mount St. Helens 'recharge'
East Bay Times: Home insurance at $10,000 a year shows California buyers’ pain
KRON: ‘Big Boy,’ the 1.1 million pound train, coming to California
CBS News : San Francisco firefighters save warehouse from 2-acre Bayview District fire
AP News: Illinois may soon return land the US stole from a Prairie Band Potawatomi chief 175 years ago
AP News: California boy, 4, who disappeared from campground found safe after 22 hours alone in wilderness
Washington Post: As climate change imperils Taliban’s shift from opium, impact could be felt worldwide
The Guardian: ‘The greatest thinker you’ve never heard of’: expert who explained Hitler’s rise is finally in the spotlight
The Guardian: Eight-year-old pekingese Wild Thang wins World’s Ugliest Dog contest in Sonoma
BBC: Crew arrested after yacht fireworks spark Greece blaze
BBC: Woman attacked by wolves in safari park near Paris
BBC: Deadly attacks on Dagestan synagogues and churches
Washington Post: How California’s $100 billion surplus became a ‘budget emergency’
Washington Post: ‘Too many old people’: A rural Pa. town reckons with population loss
NY Times : ‘We’re Still Paying’: How Pets Became a Big Business
The Guardian: ‘The merry fellowship of bothies’: hiking in the Scottish Highlands
The Guardian: ‘They miscalculated’: Gaza’s floating aid pier failing to deliver in rough seas
SF Chronicle: Former Yosemite National Park employee accused of raping co-worker
SFGate: Missing man found after spending 10 days in the Santa Cruz Mountains
East Bay Times: Crews continue to gain ground on major fires burning across California
KTLA: Marijuana growth sparked hundreds of millions in value for this Southern California county
Thursday, June 20
NPR: 2 climate activists were arrested after spraying orange paint on Stonehenge
East Bay Times: After distress call, 2 people are found dead at Yosemite-area waterfall
KTVU: FBI raids home tied to Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao
BBC: At least 34 die in India after drinking toxic alcohol
The Guardian: I started smoking at 14 – and reached 40 a day. A single therapy session changed my life
BBC: Storm Alberto claims lives in Mexico and drenches US coast
The Guardian: US supreme court to release decisions with Trump immunity and abortion rights at stake – live
BBC: Climate change made US and Mexico heatwave 35 times more likely
LA Times: Opinion: With fires burning again, is California becoming uninsurable?
Siskiyou Daily News: Strawhouse Resorts and Cafe: 'Star Trek' captain, brides, birdwatchers, anglers drawn to unique riverside restaurant
KRCR: Siskiyou County deputies seize over 2,000 pounds of marijuana from U-Haul
LA Times: Airline passenger flew to Burbank, but her luggage landed in a Hollywood homeless encampment
LA Times: Get high (legally) at the massive new weed oasis inside the California State Fair
OPB: Championship golf returns to Pacific Northwest this week — but remains elusive in big picture
ABC News: Amazon fined $5.9 million for allegedly violating California's warehouse quota law
ABC News: Rapper Travis Scott arrested for disorderly intoxication, trespassing in Florida
ABC News: Hidden camera found planted outside Alhambra home after recent burglary attempt
Marin Independent Journal: San Rafael moves homeless campers, citing fire risk
East Bay Times: A California senior lost $700,000 to crypto scammers. Now she’s asking the state to slow bank transfers
KTLA: Nearly 200 pounds of meth found in vehicle after CHP pursuit
East Bay Times: Drivers hit 196 animals on this Bay Area "roadkill hotspot." A new project aims to make it safer.
KRCR: Bakersfield man abandons teen at store in rural Butte County, charged with sex crimes
KRCR: Rainbow Family plans 52nd gathering in Plumas Forest, extra law enforcement on site
ABC Sacramento: At least 15 vehicles damaged, 1 home destroyed in North Sacramento fire
ABC Sacramento: Man shot in Butte County after accidentally driving into 'illegal marijuana farm,' deputies say
Sacramento Bee: California State Fair to allow marijuana sale and on-site consumption for the first time
SFGate: California to return historic amount of land to the Shasta Indian Nation
KRON: San Francisco voters to decide future of Great Highway
KRON: Multiple people shot at Lake Merritt Juneteenth celebration in Oakland