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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

SF Chronicle: S.F. overwhelmed by deluge of trash from illegal dumping. Here's how the city is responding

SF Chronicle: Video shows largest group of killer whales yet off California coast

East Bay Times: Owner of Byron ranch charged with illegally growing 458,353 marijuana plants

East Bay Times: Bay Area man is now a suspect in two mass shootings, including recent San Francisco attack that injured 9

SF Chronicle: A Sonoma winery has purchased one of California’s most treasured vineyards

SF Chronicle: Westfield giving up S.F. mall in wake of Nordstrom closure, plunging sales and foot traffic

SF Chronicle: NIMBY island no more: Alameda's waterfront is having a housing boom

Sunday, June 11, 2023

BBC: Philadelphia Interstate 95 freeway partially collapses following underpass fire

KGW: Police try to seize $30K from Portland Shroom House raid

LA Times: San Diego considers banning homeless encampments

Washington Post: Opinion Why mowing the lawn is like making your bed in public

Scientific American: How Dreams Reveal Brain Disorders

The Guardian: EPA sued over pesticide-coated seeds’ ‘devastating impacts’ on US wildlife

Smithsonian Magazine: Anne Frank’s Childhood Friend Recalls Their Years Before the Holocaust

AP News: Youth environmentalists bring Montana climate case to trial after 12 years, seeking to set precedent

Washington Post: It felt like I had indigestion. I was having a heart attack.

Washington Post: The race to map the world’s seagrass — before it disappears

NY Times : Tens of Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Ashore on Gulf Coast in Texas

NY Times : Aussie Farmers Unleash Dinosaur Rush as Fossil Findings Rewrite History

NY Times : Their Pot Convictions Were Erased, but They Still Face Deportation

NPR: A Ukrainian nuclear plant is facing a water shortage

NPR: Rain may soon help put out flames in Canada's worst recorded wildfire season

The Hill: How Canada’s wildfires reflect a ‘fire-dependent civilization’

The Hill: Why some lawmakers are livid over the ‘shameless’ PGA-LIV merger

The Atlantic: Trump’s Indictment Reveals a National-Security Nightmare

The Atlantic: The Crop That’s Sucking the Colorado River Dry

The Guardian: The Shadow Docket review: how the US supreme court keeps sunlight out

The Guardian: Ready for your crapsule? Faecal transplants could play a huge role in future medicine

The Guardian: Amazon plane crash children reunited with family after 40 days in jungle

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Atlantic coast biomedical labs are bleeding more horseshoe crabs with little accountability

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon gun laws challenge in judge’s hands after gun advocates, state attorneys make cases

KOMO: Missing hiker in Olympic National Park 'self-rescued' days after start of backpacking trip

Seattle Times: She paid $18,500 for a WA service dog but became the dog’s ‘emotional support human’ instead

KPTV: Dragon boat teams race in time trials on Willamette

KOMO: Oregon to crack down on illegal pot growers by holding landowners responsible

Fresno Bee: After 30-year fight, community celebrates renaming of Fresno streets for Cesar Chavez

Yahoo News: More than 60 arrested in Kings County operation, sheriff says. Some accused of killings

LA Times: One Metro worker revived 21 riders overdosing on opioids. He’s not alone

Siskiyou Daily News: Homelessness on the rise in Siskiyou County, Point-in-Time data finds

The Oregonian: Hot tub manufacturer will close Oregon factory, lay off 115

LA Times: Feds launch search for communities willing to take nuclear waste from San Onofre and other plants

LA Times: L.A. formally makes Juneteenth a holiday for all city workers

LA Times: In burned-out groves of giant sequoias, crews plant seeds of hope. Will they survive?

AP News: Ukraine’s dam collapse is both a fast-moving disaster and a slow-moving ecological catastrophe

KTLA: Video captures armored truck robbed at gunpoint in Hyde Park

KTLA: CHP Patrol cars slam into La Puente home during high-speed pursuit

East Bay Times: Elusive sperm whales hanging around Southern California coast

KCRA: Sacramento triathletes excited for five more years of Ironman California

KRON: Bay Area real estate value is fastest dropping in the nation, report says

Yahoo News: Walgreens, CVS and others to pay $17.3 billion for role in California opioid crisis