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Nation Oct 09
Millions face power outages in California due to wildfire threatCalifornia's main utility announced is shutting off power to customers in 34 northern, central and coastal California counties to reduce the chance of fierce winds knocking down or toppling trees into power lines during a siege of hot, dry, gusty…
Nation Sep 05
1 acquitted in deadly Ghost Ship warehouse fire; jury deadlocks on 2ndA jury on Thursday acquitted one man of involuntary manslaughter but could not reach a verdict for the leader of an artists' commune accused of turning a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse into a cluttered maze that trapped 36 partygoers…
Nation Jul 05
Aftershocks hit California following strongest earthquake in 20 yearsA widely felt magnitude 5.4 quake before dawn Friday was the strongest aftershock thus far.
Politics Apr 30
Ellen Tauscher, former congresswoman and finance trailblazer, dies at 67Tauscher, who served in Congress for more than a decade before joining the Obama administration, died of complications from pneumonia, her family said Tuesday.
Education Feb 21
Why Oakland teachers are on strikeTeachers in Oakland, California, went on strike Thursday, part of a national wave of discontent by educators over classroom conditions, pay and other issues. Student photographers at Youth Beat, a PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Lab, captured the first day of…
Nation Nov 29
Flash flooding strands vehicles in wildfire-scarred ParadiseA spokesman with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says several vehicles were trapped on a road on the outskirts of Chico.
Nation Aug 03
Returning to rubble, some ‘lost everything’ in California wildfire"I'm waiting to probably break down any minute here. Pretty overwhelming," one woman said as her family stood on the sidewalk staring in disbelief at what's left of their house in the city of Redding.
Nation Jul 24
Police arrest suspect in Oakland train station stabbingThe hunt for a man police say killed an 18-year-old woman in an unprovoked knife attack in the San Francisco Bay Area ended where it began: In a train station.