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California regulates around 10,000 long-term care facilities, from small assisted living homes to large skilled-nursing centers. A KQED investigation has found that wildfire is a significant hazard at 35% of these facilities, in the wildland-urban interface, in state-designated fire hazard severity zones, or both.

The light of the moon will reduce the visibility of some fainter meteors, but NASA says it's still worth staying up late — or rising very very early on Wednesday — to see "nature's fireworks."

Schools, faith and community groups as well as professional musicians are all struggling with the risks of singing. Experts present the most recent research and offer strategies to mitigate the risks.

The selection will make Harris the third woman and first Black and first Asian American candidate to be nominated for vice president by a major political party.

Word of a major gold strike on the Fraser River of Canada in 1857 reached gold camps as far away as the Illinois Valley of Southern Oregon. Mining had…

"Many of us know the risk [voting] entails because of the pandemic," a protester says, "but we want to hold elections." The vote, postponed twice due to the virus, is now set to take place on Oct. 18.

The draft proposal to reduce the amount of protected habitat is open for public comment.

Oregon lawmakers powered through a one-day special session Monday, closing a billion-dollar budget hole and passing bills to help unemployed workers and curtail police abuses.

So much for thinking that an abnormally wet year would mean an abnormally quiet fire season. Even the slowly creeping fires of mid-July have become the…

To make the case that an animal needs protection under the Endangered Species Act, you have to prove that you seek to protect a distinct population of the…