By San Francisco Chronicle Latest developments in the North Bay fires: 8am: Firefighter killed in tanker crash: A water tanker crashed on a winding Napa County road near where firefighters are battling the northern edge of the Nuns Fire, and the driver was killed, officials said. 7:15am: Firefighters making progress: The Atlas Fire is now […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — A lawsuit has been filed against Gov. Brian Sandoval over the state’s failure to implement a private gun sale background check approved by voters in November 2016. The lawsuit on behalf of Nevada residents Dale Zusi, Vicki Delatorre and Sydney Gordon was filed Thursday in […]
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By Marjie Lundstrom, Darrell Smith and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee The wildfires ripping through California have at least 20 different names, in 10 different counties. The Tubbs Fire in Sonoma County. The monster Atlas Fire in nearby Napa County. The Cascade Fire in rural Yuba County. And because this is California, with its diverse populations […]
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By Stuart Leavenworth, Sacramento Bee As portrayed in novels, the California of the future is barely habitable. Brutal storms alternate with crushing droughts. Mudslides and wildfires create waves of climate change refugees. Fiction, right? Perhaps less so after the last week. The wildfires in Northern California created scenes from a sci-fi horror movie: Obliterated neighborhoods; […]
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By San Francisco Chronicle Latest developments in the North Bay fires: 7:25am. Deadliest of Northern California wildfires now 60 percent contained: The Tubbs Fire in Napa and Sonoma Counties burned through 35,470 acres and was 60 percent contained Sunday morning, according to the latest CalFire measurements. 7:05am. Hundreds of thousands lost power in wildfires, […]
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By Caroline Winter, New York Times In rural Mecosta County, Mich., sits a near-windowless facility with a footprint about the size of Buckingham Palace. It’s just one of Nestlé’s roughly 100 bottled water factories in 34 countries around the world. Inside, workers wear hairnets, hard hats, goggles, gloves, and earplugs. Ten production lines snake through the […]
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By Joseph Serna, Laura J. Nelson, Chris Megerian and Sonali Kohli, Los Angeles Times As the death toll rose to 40, firefighters struggled Saturday to get the upper hand against several massive wildfires that have ravaged Northern California for almost a week. Strong winds kicked up overnight in the central Napa Valley region, causing […]
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By Stefan Becket, CBS News The deadly wildfires ravaging Northern California have destroyed more than 3,500 homes and businesses, leveling entire neighborhoods and forcing thousands of residents to flee the flames. At least 40 people have died in the blazes, which have burned 265 square miles of land and rank among the most destructive in […]
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By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee California community colleges will provide a year of free tuition after Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed legislation that aims to boost declining enrollment and address a shortage of college-educated workers in the state. Assembly Bill 19 waives the first year of fees for any first-time student who enrolls full-time […]
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By Melissa Siig, Moonshine Ink About a year ago, Tahoe City resident Kevin Plumb received a letter from The Hartford that it would not be renewing his homeowner’s insurance because his fire protection classification had jumped to a six. (The rating is from 1 to 10, with 1 being the least risky.) Plumb, a contractor […]
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