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Grant Douglas pauses while evacuating as the Park Fire jumps Highway 36 near Paynes Creek in Tehama County, Calif., on Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Thousands battle Western wildfires as smoke puts millions under air quality alerts

July 28, 2024 at 1:52 p.m.

Wildfires across the western United States and Canada put millions of people under air quality alerts Sunday as thousands of firefighters battled the flames, including the largest wildfire in California...

California utility Pacific Gas & Electric to pay $55 million for massive wildfires

April 11, 2022 at 10:12 p.m.

Pacific Gas & Electric, the nation's largest utility, has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires sparked by its aging Northern California...

U.S. reports 1st case of omicron variant in returning traveler

December 1, 2021 at 3:02 p.m.

The U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of the omicron variant Wednesday 鈥� in a vaccinated traveler who returned to California after a trip to South Africa 鈥� as scientists...

Organized thieves hit high-end Bay Area stores amid trend

November 22, 2021 at 6:11 p.m.

Groups of thieves, some carrying crowbars and hammers, smashed glass cases and window displays and ransacked high-end stores throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, stealing jewelry, sunglasses, suitcases and other...

Record rainfall as storm douses drought-stricken California

October 25, 2021 at 10:23 p.m.

A powerful storm that swept through California set rainfall records and helped douse wildfires. But it remained to be seen how much of a dent it made in the state's...

This Oct. 2, 2021 shows a group of venomous Northern Pacific rattlesnakes which were extracted from a under a home in Santa Rosa, Calif. Al Wolf is used to clearing one or two snakes from under houses but recently was called by a woman who said she had seen rattlesnakes scurry under her Northern California house and was surprised to find more than 90 rattlesnakes getting ready to hibernate. (Sonoma County Reptile Rescue via AP)

More than 90 snakes found under Northern California home

October 15, 2021 at 8:43 p.m.

Al Wolf is used to clearing one or two snakes from under houses but recently was called by a woman who said she had seen rattlesnakes scurry under her Northern...

People hold signs against vaccine passports ...

Mask, vaccine conflicts descend into violence and harassment

August 21, 2021 at 11:36 p.m.

PHOENIX 鈥� The Hawaii lieutenant governor watched in horror as protesters showed up outside his condo, yelled at him through bullhorns and beamed strobe lights into the building to harass...

FILE – In this April 22, 2020, file photo, pallbearers, who were among only 10 allowed mourners, walk the casket for internment at the funeral for Larry Hammond, who died from the coronavirus, at Mount Olivet Cemetery in New Orleans. Government health officials say Native Americans, Latinos and Black people are two to three times more likely than whites to die of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

As U.S. COVID-19 death toll nears 600,000, racial gaps persist

June 14, 2021 at 1:01 p.m.

Jerry Ramos spent his final days in a California hospital, hooked to an oxygen machine with blood clots in his lungs from COVID-19, his 3-year-old daughter in his thoughts.

Citing racial bias, San Francisco will end mug shots release

July 1, 2020 at 9:57 a.m.

San Francisco police will stop releasing the mug shots of people who have been arrested unless they pose a threat to the public, as part of an effort to stop...

Pandemic is a boon for the bicycle as thousands snap them up

May 28, 2020 at 9:07 a.m.

People have been buying bikes like crazy during the coronavirus outbreak. And honestly, who can blame them?

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