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Thursday, March 21, 2024

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

SFGate: Hidden camera in Bay Area Starbucks bathroom recorded over 90 people, police say

SFGate: San Francisco-based Reddit is going public. Here's what to know about the unusual IPO.

SF Chronicle: Proposition 1, Newsom’s mental health bond, finally secures enough votes to pass

SF Chronicle: Rain is set to return to California — and it could stick around

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

NPR: Nowruz: Persian New Year's Table Celebrates Spring Deliciously

CBS News : CRIME Oregon man found guilty after DNA from chewing gum links him to 1980 murder of college student

Smithsonian Magazine: Plastics Contain Thousands More Chemicals Than Thought, and Most Are Unregulated, Report Finds

BBC: Greenpeace could be thrown out of UN deep-sea mining body

The Guardian: Video shows koalas clinging to trees as gum trees cut down on Kangaroo Island

The Guardian: South Carolina woman posthumously wins settlement over Black ancestral land

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon Shakespeare Festival returns for first full season since pandemic

East Bay Times: Raid uncovers 1 million bullets, hundreds of guns and a shooting range inside Richmond man’s home, authorities say

SF Chronicle: Highly unusual feature appears at Tahoe ski resort: 30-foot deep crevasse

SF Chronicle: More homeless people likely to be sent out of S.F. on buses as city expands Homeward Bound program

KOMO : Redmond, WA residents plan to rally against 100-unit supportive housing project

KPTV: Affordable housing built in southeast Portland for refugees

East Bay Times: California added 154,000 jobs last year. Where were the most hires?

East Bay Times: Hundreds of homes may replace part of huge Silicon Valley tech campus

NY Times: Outside Groups Pledge Over $1 Billion to Aid Biden’s Re-election Effort

Reuters: Meta offers to almost halve Facebook, Instagram monthly fees in Europe amid concerns

Reuters: Unilever to spin off Ben & Jerry's ice cream business, cut 7,500 jobs for cost savings

SA Today: How TV’s ‘Maine Cabin Masters’ tries to preserve a tradition

Washington Post: AstraZeneca will cap inhaler costs at $35 per month

Washington Post: They panic-bought bidets during the pandemic. It changed their lives.

the Atlantic: DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest

the Atlantic: The Worst Argument for Youth Transition

Smithsonian Magazine: Shells From Captain Cook’s Final Voyage Were Rescued From a Dumpster