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Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024

Marin Independent Journal: Marin hike: Marin’s most dramatic winter hike

Marin Independent Journal: Bay Area braces for series of storms

SF Chronicle: It’s official: Tech billionaires are taking their plan for a new California city to voters

SF Chronicle: Six Santa Rosa teens accused of attempted murder of man

SF Chronicle: This is one way Californians end up ‘incredibly vulnerable’ to homelessness, new study reveals

SFGate: This Oakland gas station is going viral for its nonstop car burglaries

SFGate: Costco ditches churro for 'unreasonably rich' chocolate chunk cookie

SFGate: An obscure California law is blocking UCLA, Stanford from studying drugs, mushrooms, cannabis

Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024

SF Chronicle: Editorial: S.F.’s streets could improve with tiny homes — but only if the city gets out of its own way

The Atlantic: Pets Really Can Be Like Human Family

North Bay Biz Journal: Providence to shutter outpatient labs at multiple California hospitals

North Bay Biz Journal: 2 plead guilty in bribe of Vallejo official over illegal cannabis cultivation

KTLA: The Pacific Northwest braces for a new round of ice and freezing rain after deadly weekend storm

KTLA: Warning over raw oyster consumption expands to more parts of Southern California

KRON: Los Gatos man murdered wife, hid body in Santa Cruz Mountains, police say

KRON: Sinkhole developed in downtown San Francisco

KRCR: Two Trinity County jail inmates die in custody, cause under investigation

Business Insider: Who killed a Shasta's girl goat called Cedar?

The Guardian: The three-decade saga that led to the Crown Heights tunnels

Reuters: Crop-killing weeds advance across US farmland as chemicals lose effectiveness

Washington Post: U.S. health care isn’t ready for a surge of seniors with disabilities

Washington Post: Half of Americans agree with Trump’s ‘poisoning the blood’ immigration rhetoric

Washington Post: In Amsterdam, a community of floating homes shows the world how to live alongside nature

The Guardian: Mask policies return in US as respiratory viruses threaten to strain hospitals

NY Post: Jewish, Muslim duo to jointly run first licensed pot shop on Staten Island

Reuters: Qatar, France broker deal to get aid, medication to civilians, hostages in Gaza

ABC News: A little fish at the Supreme Court could take a big bite out of regulatory power

KPTV: Couple trapped by falling trees chops their way out of home with axe in Lake Oswego

KPTV: Family of 5 hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning at SE Portland apartments

KPTV: Nebraska homeowner brings horses inside house to get them out of sub-zero temperatures

The Guardian: ‘Like a horror movie’: the deadly 1994 earthquake that changed California

The Guardian: US supreme court won’t hear case over bathrooms for transgender students

The Guardian: Ocean fungi from twilight zone could be source of next penicillin-like drug

The Guardian: Senate to debate Bernie Sanders’ measure requiring Gaza human rights report as condition for Israel aid – live

KCRA: 100% fruit juice linked to weight gain in children and adults, study finds

NY Times: The Crochet Coral Reef Keeps Spawning, Hyperbolically

Politico: A big Chinese delegation unnerves U.S. diplomats in Davos

NY Times : Workplace Wellness Programs Have Little Benefit, Study Finds

NPR: It's so cold, Teslas are struggling to charge in Chicago

Washington Post: At 93, he’s as fit as a 40-year-old. His body offers lessons on aging.

AP News: As opioids devastate tribes in Washington state, tribal leaders push for added funding

AP News: Evacuation underway for stranded tourists after multiple avalanches trap 1,000 people in China

BBC: They were Israel's 'eyes on the border' - but their Hamas warnings went unheard

BBC: Spectacular arches and caves as iceberg decays

The Guardian: Murder, drought and peyote: the deadly struggle for Mexico’s water

The Guardian: Grieving mother falls victim to Amazon one-time password ‘scam’

The Guardian: ‘The last thing I wanted’: cesarean rates in Puerto Rico soar amid health crisis

The Oregonian: ‘Never seen anything like this’: Scores of Portland-area residents displaced after trees crash through homes

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Struggling with oversaturation, Oregon’s cannabis industry calls for new restrictions

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Thousands of Oregonians remain without power, with ice storm forecast Tuesday