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Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024

LA Times: Opinion: A San Francisco carve out could wreck California’s landmark coastal protections

LA Times: California effort to crack down on legacy and donor admissions could hit USC, Stanford

LA Times: Democratic Party chair Rusty Hicks assailed as outsider in bid for North Coast Assembly seat

LA Times: Forget California exodus. New Jersey residents lead an influx back into the Golden State

LA Times: Newsom wants to build a $16-billion water tunnel. Will it destroy California’s delta?

KRCR: Mount Shasta ski park, city brace for biggest predicted winter storm this year

KRCR: Update: Wanted suspect apprehended after tense standoff in Lewiston

KRCR: Redding smoke shops busted for illegal sales to minors, 'magic mushroom' chocolates seized

Public Law Library: Lawsuit contends Healdsburg’s dispensary permitting process flawed

Press Democrat: Next ‘Star Wars’ film to shoot entirely in California, including in the North Bay

Sacramento Bee: Sacramento County could soon begin scanning sewage for fentanyl, under California bill

SFGate: Humboldt's Lanphere Dunes is pristine Calif. coastline. A gun-toting woman made sure of it.

Humboldt's Centerville Beach Parking Area Slides Into Ocean: People flee as cliffside parking lot crashes into ocean in California, video shows

Marin Independent Journal: Biggest storm of the year to bring up to 10 feet of snow and “near to impossible” travel conditions to Sierra this week

East Bay Times: East Bay woman strangled on Santa Cruz beach ID’d

East Bay Times: Bay Area sideshow with 300 participants results in one man shot, hospitalized

SFGate: Wendy's plans to test surge pricing just like Uber

SFGate: Driver flies off road, lands along rugged cliffs by California's Highway 1

SF Chronicle: Top Republican calls for investigation into Newsom over Panera’s exemption from wage law

SF Chronicle: Blizzard set to bury Tahoe is different from snowstorms earlier this winter. Here’s why

SF Chronicle: California district can require schools to out trans students, ban critical race theory, judge rules

East Bay Times: Violent rally shuts down Cal event featuring Israeli speaker

KRON: UC Berkeley leadership condemns protest against Israeli speaker

Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024

Heart Association: Marijuana use linked with increased risk of heart attack, heart failure

Courthouse News Service: Experts urge federal action to keep microplastics out of drinking water

KRCR: Shasta County's election commission speak on divisive hand-counting recommendation

Courthouse News Service: Energy Department announces $366 million for rural clean energy projects, mostly on tribal lands

Courthouse News Service: Upper Midwest sees record-breaking winter heat wave

The Guardian: Let them eat Flakes: Kellogg’s CEO says poor families should consider ‘cereal for dinner’

KTLA: Santa Barbara beaches close after more than 1 million gallons of sewage spill into water

KRON: San Jose named 4th best for quality of life in US

KRON: Bay Area tech gaming company slashing hundreds of employees

The Guardian: Street photography might seem a weird hobby – but it’s taught me patience and persistence

Politico: Americans say immigration most important national issue for first time since 2019 in Gallup poll

Politico: NYC Mayor Adams calls for change to New York City’s sanctuary city laws in harshest statement yet

The Guardian: Texas wildfires: nuclear weapons factory shuts down amid evacuations

The Guardian: Seven women in Turkey ‘savagely killed’ by current or ex-spouses in single day

The Guardian: ‘Medical colonialism’: midwives sue Hawaii over law regulating Native birth workers

The Guardian: Starbucks and workers’ union agree to talks in breakthrough for both sides

The Oregonian: Oregon homeowners face rising premiums or limited property insurance options due to wildfire risk

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Chinook Indian Nation receives land claim settlement, could be closer to federal recognition

Oregon Public Broadcasting: 150 years ago, one of Oregon’s first Indian boarding schools opened

Oregon Public Broadcasting: US, Oregon governments may sue PacifiCorp for $1B over 2020 wildfire costs

SF Chronicle: Rare blizzard warnings issued for Sierra, Lake Tahoe ahead of major winter storm

SF Chronicle: Police chases are killing more Americans. With lax rules, it’s no accident

SF Chronicle: San Francisco Macy’s to close in devastating blow to downtown

Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024

NPR: Scientists scanning the seafloor discover a long-lost Stone Age 'megastructure'

BBC: Texas judge upholds school's suspension of black student over dreadlocks

The Guardian: The Finnish miracle: how the country halved its suicide rate – and saved countless lives

The Guardian: Eating to save nature? Embrace potatoes, ditch meat and track your beans