By George Avalos, Bay Area News Group State regulators last week approved new rules aimed at improving fire safety in multiple areas of California, a move taken after an array of deadly infernos in the North Bay and Southern California. PG&E and other utilities in the fire-prone Golden State would be required to increase the […]
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By Kathryn Reed It was a hunting expedition of a different kind, which netted more than a hundred waterfowl, a ruby-crowned kinglet, magpie, stellar jay, meadowlark and more. These birds were captured in photos, through binoculars, high-powered telescopes, and with pen and paper. The birders were out in force on Sunday for the annual Christmas […]
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By Garvin Thomas, NBC Elena Hight moved to Lake Tahoe from Hawaii when she was 6, so snow was new to her. Acrobatics, weren’t however. Her parents tell her she was jumping off everything by the age of 2. And now, after a big setback, Hight is hoping to jump back into the games. Read […]
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By Adam Ashton, Sacramento Bee Every time you pay more at California’s gas pumps to fill your tank, you’re feeling the price to fix the state’s roads. But are you feeling the improvement? California’s newly paved roads are built to standards of smoothness that are the strictest in the country. With that standard comes high […]
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By Susan Wood TRUCKEE – Pssst – here’s the best-kept secret for those who have been living under a rock – midweek skiing is nothing like the weekend. Midweek riding offers a world all its own for those either lucky enough to be retired or crazy enough to call in sick to work. Then, there […]
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By Bart Jansen, USA Today A record 107.3 million people will travel to celebrate year-end holidays, braving higher gas prices than last year and roads in some spots threatening three times the normal traffic congestion, according to a AAA forecast Thursday. Holiday travel already set records this year for Memorial Day, Independence Day and Thanksgiving, according to AAA. […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee This is how dry it has been so far this season: California’s chances of having a normal “water year” have fallen to around 33 percent in much of the state, according to a federal scientist. Michael Dettinger, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said those dismal odds are based […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the second of two stories about California’s tree mortality and how biomass is one solution to the problem. By Susan Wood If a record 129 million dead and dying trees collected over the last seven years doesn’t electrify California to get serious about renewable energy like biomass, then perhaps nothing will. […]
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By Julie Cart, CalMatters Beyond the devastation and personal tragedy of the fires that have ravaged California in recent months, another disaster looms: an alarming uptick in unhealthy air and the sudden release of the carbon dioxide that drives climate change. As millions of acres burn in a cycle of longer and more intense fire […]
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By Conor Dougherty, New York Times Russel Lee and his wife spent the past few years going online to do the depressing math of how much less housing costs pretty much everywhere that isn’t California. They looked at Idaho, Arizona, North Carolina and Kentucky, but Lee, who was born in San Francisco and has lived […]
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