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Erik Neumann/JPR/County officials in the Klamath Basin are appealing to federal water regulators for help with hundreds of wells that ran dry last summer. They’re also trying to fix empty, cracked water canals to avoid flooding. -
Martin do Nascimento/CalMattersLawmakers want to create stricter vaccine mandates, especially for children. They anticipate an especially fierce fight in the coming months.
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Environmental advocacy group Food and Water Watch says clean air violations by Oregon’s largest dairy should disqualify it from participating in California’s low-carbon fuels program. -
Since the surge began in December, some smaller law enforcement agencies, including in Mount Shasta, have been forced to increase overtime, reduce services and reroute non-emergency calls to online portals.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders agree to restore California paid sick leave for COVID-19. Here’s what you need to know.
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Save the Redwoods League purchased and donated the 523-acre area to the InterTribal Sinkyone Wildnerness Council, a group of 10 tribes that have been connected to the land for thousands of years.
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A local political drama is playing out in Shasta County ahead of a Feb. 1 recall election. Just one member of the county board of supervisors faces removal. But it’s emblematic of the way frustrations over pandemic mandates have pinned targets on local elected officials.
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About 11,500 long-term care center workers are now sick with COVID. “It’s been like one coworker after another, after another, everyone getting sick,” one nursing assistant said.
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Since 2017 Pacific Gas & Electric has been blamed for more than 30 wildfires that destroyed more than 23,000 homes and businesses and killed more than 100 people.
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We asked four public health experts all your pressing questions about how to avoid catching omicron on campus.
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With 7 million Californians infected, how risky is it to work? When is it safe for omicron-infected workers to return?
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Ahead of the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling which legalized abortion and is now in jeopardy, California Democrats renewed a pledge to make the state a “safe haven” for those seeking an abortion and other reproductive care.
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Essential workers say they are bearing the brunt of the pandemic again but this time, there is less government support. Economists say jobs in California’s low-wage sectors could take longer to recover.
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In Blodgett Forest, west of Lake Tahoe, researchers grapple with the state’s forest-management history while investigating what it means to have a healthy one.
