DISCLAIMER: None of the stuff below is written or endorsed by the Outpost, and we’d be willing to bet that at least some of it is crazy and/or wrong. Use critical thinking.
Thursday, July 3
The Oregonian: Copper-wire thieves are knocking out streetlights across Portland, leaving highways – and police – in the dark
Courthouse News Service: Navy asks judge to dismiss claims over radioactive waste cleanup in San Francisco
Courthouse News Service: Kratom class action
Sacramento Bee: Opinion: California’s future doctors will go hungry under Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
OPB: Trump administration targets ATF, with plans to cut jobs and ease gun restrictions
OPB: Federal budget bill would boost logging — but cut funds to Oregon timber counties
Sacramento Bee: Sacramento mayor’s plan to bar homeless from sleeping at City Hall draws criticism
Modesto Bee: Whopping $600-a-month water rate approved for this Stanislaus County community
CBS News LA: San Bernardino County Fire considering new high-tech emergency response aircraft
CBS San Diego: California leaders push to improve immigration system
KTLA: Hotels and homes evacuated on Greek island of Crete as wildfire burns out of control
AP News: In a big bill that hurts clean energy, residential solar likely to get hit fast
KTLA: Immigration agents seen urinating on grounds of Pico Rivera school, officials say
KTLA: Southern California lifeguard suffers life-altering spinal cord injury while on the job
KTLA: House GOP advances Trump megabill after dramatic overnight vote
KRCR: 4 dead, 14 hospitalized in Chicago drive-by shooting
KRCR: Oregon bans cell phones in K-12 schools to boost learning, mental health
NPR LA: Rebuilding Altadena bogs down in red tape and frustration
KQED: SF Supervisor Proposes Overhauling ‘Outdated’ Housing Code to Allow Shared Living
Action News Shasta: Man pleads guilty to 2005 killing of Patricia Joseph in Siskiyou County
Action News Shasta: Shasta County's Horse Fire grows to 200 acres overnight
KRCR: California celebrates a decade of gray wolf resurgence with new conservation report
KRCR: Health advisory issued for parts of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
SF Gate: A busy local lumber mill gives LA's fallen trees new life
CBS Sacramento: California moves to set nation's first smoke damage insurance standard
KRON: Oakland baby rescued from fentanyl lab during drug bust: sheriff
CBS Bay Area: San Francisco deputies find 1,600 pounds of illegal fireworks inside stolen U-Haul truck
CBS Bay Area: Local News 7 "unaccounted for" after California fireworks warehouse explosion, officials say
CBS Bay Area: Bay Area man famous for trash cleanups temporarily calling quits on Oakland
SF Gate: Alleged assault leads to high-speed car chase through 2 national parks
SF Gate: Madre Fire explodes to nearly 10,000 acres, closes California's Highway 166
SF Gate: Historic Northern California bridge became Instagram famous. Then it got shut down.
Marin Independent Journal: New e-bike rules taking effect across Marin
East Bay Times: Contra Costa County reports 26% drop in homelessness
Mad River Union: Arcata Ballll Park Grand Re-opening
Mad River Union: We Are Up housing mods ease approval
Mad River Union: Burglary suspects meet the long arm of the law
Mad River Union: A small wooden stool inspires spontaneous acts of Trinidad-style kindness
Mad River Union: When standing still isn’t an option
Mad River Union: Share your input on Revised Draft Election Administration Plan
Mad River Union: WILPF USED BOOK SALE
Mad River Union: Webinar: Permitting for Offshore Wind Port Infrastructure Projects
Mad River Union: Life Plan launches
Mad River Union: Deputies track down stolen car, make arrest