EnvironmentCalifornians to face steep fines for violating water orders under new legislationSeptember 4, 2024Ranchers who defied a state water order were only fined about $50 each. Under new legislation headed to the governor, some daily fines for water scofflaws can increase 20-fold.
EnvironmentThe Center for Land-Based Learning grows opportunities for beginning farmers with training programAugust 30, 2024Over seven months trainees attend Beginning Farmer Training Program classes twice a week, work in the 1-acre training plot at the Center for Land-Based Learning in Woodland, write their own business plan and sell produce at a farmers market.
EnvironmentCalifornia legislators, Tribal leaders urge Biden administration to designate three national monumentsAugust 28, 2024 | Manola SecairaMonument status could protect these sites, which have historical and cultural importance to multiple California tribes, from development and other harm.
EnvironmentMan accused of starting destructive California wildfire by throwing firework out car windowAugust 28, 2024A 26-year-old man has been accused of igniting a destructive California wildfire in early July by throwing a firework from a car window during hot, dry and windy weather.
EnvironmentSalmon will soon swim freely in the Klamath River for first time in a century once dams are removedAugust 28, 2024For the first time in more than a century, salmon will have free passage along the more than 400 miles of the Klamath River and its tributaries as the largest dam removal project in U.S. history nears completion along the California-Oregon border.
EnvironmentSacramento temperature blanket 2024: Despite a cooler August, experts say wildfire potential is above normal this fallAugust 27, 2024 | Manola SecairaPeak wildfire season tends to last through October, so the potential for big fires in Northern California isn’t over quite yet.
EnvironmentHeat waves, wildfires and now … snow? California endures a summer of extremesAugust 26, 2024The West Coast’s summer has been interrupted by an unusually cold system from the Gulf of Alaska that dropped down through the Pacific Northwest into Northern California.
State GovernmentCalifornia could soon have an official state slug, crabAugust 23, 2024 | Megan MyscofskiCalifornia is on the cusp of recognizing two new animals as mascots: The banana slug and the Dungeness crab.
Sacramento RegionSacramento teens lead fight against climate change in solidarity with national protestsAugust 22, 2024 | Gerardo ZavalaLocal climate activists held a Summer of Heat protest in downtown Sacramento in solidarity with protests in New York City demanding Wall Street address its support of companies they believe are complicit in accelerating climate change.
EnvironmentFirefighters significantly tame California's fourth-largest wildfire on recordAugust 20, 2024California’s largest wildfire this year has been significantly tamed as the state’s initially fierce fire season has, at least temporarily, fallen into a relative calm.
