Extreme weather whiplashes California's 'new climate reality'
The past three years have been California's driest on record, a streak unlikely to break this winter
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The past three years have been California's driest on record, a streak unlikely to break this winter
Nearly 400 school districts spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with several tribes and U.S. territories, are receiving roughly $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500 "clean" school buses under a new federal program.
California's planet-warming emissions dropped nearly 9% in 2020 compared to the year before as pandemic restrictions kept people at home, out of their cars and away from the workplace for much of the year.
Sensitive to changes in temperature and season, grapes have been called one of the canaries in the climate coal mine.
While most people picture aircraft carriers and destroyers when they think of the Navy, Meredith Berger, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Energy, Installations and Environment, sees a major opportunity to combat climate change.
A bill that would fast-track approval of bicycle, rapid bus, light rail and pedestrian projects in California was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the bill's sponsor announced Friday.
Three Sonoma County fire stations are now equipped with a new emergency response tool: mobile generators powered by the sun.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of bills Friday to expand California's reliance on clean energy and reduce carbon emissions, moves he said further establish the state as a global climate leader.
A weekend weather system could hamper firefighters' efforts battling the week-old Mosquito Fire that's burned more than 66,000 acres, becoming the largest in the state so far this year.
Overnight the small army of firefighters battling the Mosquito Fire along the middle fork of the American River were able to hold the line against a rapidly advancing wall of flames in the Todd Valley.
People who live in Morgan Hill have dealt with four consecutive days of power outages, as a result of the extreme heat the region is facing.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors amended the city planning code this week to make installing new electric vehicle charging stations easier.
Thousands of homes in Alameda, Healdsburg, Palo Alto and other Northern California cities lost power Tuesday evening following miscommunication about rolling blackouts.
Hurricane Kay gained strength in the Pacific Wednesday and began lashing Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, where authorities prepared by opening shelters and closing some roads.
Over half a million PG&E customers braced for rolling blackouts but luckily California narrowly avoided them.
The lights were off and fans whirring inside classrooms at Lou Sutton Elementary School in Novato Tuesday as students, teachers and staff coped with hundred-degree temperatures amid a record-breaking statewide heat wave.
Operators of California's power grid issued a statewide Flex Alert Wednesday to call for voluntary electricity conservation because of the high energy demand as a heat wave settles over the Bay Area and the state.
In California, a debate is heating up over whether certain crops should even be grown here.
Amid worsening drought conditions statewide, part of the Central Valley has been sinking. Now, authorities are working towards a solution.
The urban heat island effect can make the country's most populated cities 20ºF warmer than nearby areas. Climate change will only make it more suffocating.
As Santa Clara County faces its driest year to date in the past 128 years, county officials say drought conditions are causing a rise in mosquito populations and West Nile virus activity.
The city of Antioch sits right next to the largest source of fresh water in Northern California. But it's facing a water supply crisis because of changes to the Delta, both natural and man-made.
Antioch has supplied its people with water from the San Joaquin River for just 32 days this year, compared to roughly 128 days by this time in a wet year.
On Sunday afternoon in Walnut Creek a benefit car wash was held that was missing one seemingly key ingredient: water.
Bay Area activists plan to gather Saturday in Richmond for a march and actions commemorating the 10-year anniversary of an explosion and fire that tore through the Chevron Richmond refinery.
On Sunday in Pleasanton, fans of the game got a chance to see how the professionals do it, as a new league is bringing some of the best table tennis players in the world to the Bay Area.
Oakland will need to look at making some severe cuts to balance its budget. The finance department sounded the alarm on Friday, saying to balance the budget now or declare a fiscal emergency.
An Alaska Airlines flight into San Jose landed safely after calling for a priority landing Sunday evening, the airliner said.
A man was arrested for murder and attempted murder after he confessed to killing his mother in Vallejo on Saturday, police said.
Geno Smith scored on a 13-yard scramble with 12 seconds remaining and the Seattle Seahawks snapped a six-game losing streak against the San Francisco 49ers with a 20-17 victory.
On Sunday in Pleasanton, fans of the game got a chance to see how the professionals do it, as a new league is bringing some of the best table tennis players in the world to the Bay Area.
Oakland will need to look at making some severe cuts to balance its budget. The finance department sounded the alarm on Friday, saying to balance the budget now or declare a fiscal emergency.
An Alaska Airlines flight into San Jose landed safely after calling for a priority landing Sunday evening, the airliner said.
A man was arrested for murder and attempted murder after he confessed to killing his mother in Vallejo on Saturday, police said.
Geno Smith scored on a 13-yard scramble with 12 seconds remaining and the Seattle Seahawks snapped a six-game losing streak against the San Francisco 49ers with a 20-17 victory.
San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle will miss the game against the Seattle Seahawks with a hamstring injury.
More than two months later, her family held a candlelight vigil to continue to call for justice ahead of her 23rd birthday later this month.
On Nov. 5, San Francisco voters approved the city's newest park, a transformation of the southern end of the Great Highway. But the fight over that stretch of road appears to be turning into a political fight and a possible recall campaign.
The King Tide made its return to the Bay Area on Saturday morning, leaving its mark on some of the sidewalks along the Embarcadero.
The first case in the U.S. of a more severe strain of mpox was reported in San Mateo County, the California Department of Public Health said.
On Sunday in Pleasanton, fans of the game got a chance to see how the professionals do it, as a new league is bringing some of the best table tennis players in the world to the Bay Area.
Oakland will need to look at making some severe cuts to balance its budget. The finance department sounded the alarm on Friday, saying to balance the budget now or declare a fiscal emergency.
A man was arrested for murder and attempted murder after he confessed to killing his mother in Vallejo on Saturday, police said.
The California Highway Patrol is asking the public for help investigating a fatal crash they say took place in Hayward Saturday night.
The cycling community on both sides of the Bay turned out on Saturday to react to a proposal to move the barriers back Monday through Thursday, closing off access to bikes.
An Alaska Airlines flight into San Jose landed safely after calling for a priority landing Sunday evening, the airliner said.
As San Jose State University women's volleyball team gears up for their final games of the regular season, a new lawsuit is challenging their post-season eligibility.
With home ownership and rental prices out of reach, people in neighborhoods across the bay move into RVs and other oversized vehicles to give them some way to stay. In San Jose, encampments forming around those RVs are a source of growing frustration.
November 15th is "America Recycles Day". It's the only nationally recognized day that's dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling. But along the Monterey Peninsula, a group of graduate students got a head start with their annual "Trash Bash."
A Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Reno was forced to make an emergency landing in Sacramento Wednesday evening, the second such incident involving a Southwest flight from the Bay Area in as many days.
The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office arrested a suspect in connection to a killing in Valley Ford on Saturday.
Community tips helped Santa Rosa police identify a suspected burglar and seize 13 illegally possessed firearms, resulting in two arrests, police said.
A vigil will be held Saturday at Bodega Bay to mourn the loss of four family members and a friend who died after their boat capsized during a fishing trip.
The California Department of Cannabis Control announced Friday that more than $5 million in cannabis have been seized and three people were arrested in a recent operation targeting illegal grow houses in Solano County.
A U.S. Army soldier from Northern California who was captured during World War II and died as a prisoner of war in the Philippines has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced Friday.
Geno Smith scored on a 13-yard scramble with 12 seconds remaining and the Seattle Seahawks snapped a six-game losing streak against the San Francisco 49ers with a 20-17 victory.
San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle will miss the game against the Seattle Seahawks with a hamstring injury.
Ashton Jeanty rushed for 159 yards and three touchdowns as No. 13 Boise State beat San Jose State 42-21 for its eighth straight win.
Evgeni Malkin scored the deciding goal in the shootout and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the San Jose Sharks 4-3.
Syracuse picked off a pair of Fernando Mendoza passes and completely stifled California's offense while mounting a surprising ground attack to lift the Orange to a decisive 33-25 win.
A man was arrested for murder and attempted murder after he confessed to killing his mother in Vallejo on Saturday, police said.
The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office arrested a suspect in connection to a killing in Valley Ford on Saturday.
The California Highway Patrol is asking the public for help investigating a fatal crash they say took place in Hayward Saturday night.
Community tips helped Santa Rosa police identify a suspected burglar and seize 13 illegally possessed firearms, resulting in two arrests, police said.
The California Department of Cannabis Control announced Friday that more than $5 million in cannabis have been seized and three people were arrested in a recent operation targeting illegal grow houses in Solano County.
Autonomous vehicle company Cruise LLC agreed to a $500,000 fine Thursday after admitting to a false report following a crash last year in which one of its vehicles dragged a pedestrian in San Francisco.
In an online conversation about aging adults, Google's Gemini AI chatbot responded with a threatening message, telling the user to "please die."
The new Stanford Robotics Center, which will be developing machines for future use in medicine, the arts, ocean and space exploration and your own home, recently opened its doors for the first time.
The app crashed the same day Starbucks introduced its holiday menu, preventing customers from placing mobile orders.
"Social media is doing harm to our kids and I'm calling time on it," says Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanse.
The first case in the U.S. of a more severe strain of mpox was reported in San Mateo County, the California Department of Public Health said.
The 65-year-old actor and stand-up comedian, best known for portraying Joey Gladstone on "Full House," said he first noticed symptoms in October.
The power of music is comforting patients undergoing palliative care, helping them and their loved ones through an extremely emotional and difficult time.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to combat "the chronic disease epidemic in this country" in the Trump administration, with the slogan "Make America Healthy Aagain."
The packaging label omitted a key ingredient, prompting a Food and Drug Administration recall.
Mr. Biden has made addressing climate change a key part of his policy agenda.
Alameda County voters have spoken, and they overwhelmingly voted to recall District Attorney Pamela Price.
Democrats are sending persistent appeals to Harris supporters without expressly asking them to cover any potential debts, enticing would-be donors instead with other matters.
More than 550 Berkeley municipal workers are scheduled to stage a two-day strike next week if efforts to reach a contract agreement with the city continue to fail.
Elon Musk's social media platform X is suing California over a new state law targeting deceptive, AI-generated election content, claiming that it violates First Amendment free speech protections.
As San Jose State University women's volleyball team gears up for their final games of the regular season, a new lawsuit is challenging their post-season eligibility.
Festivities began Friday for Dia de los Muertos -- or Day of the Dead, with those who celebrate preparing altars to honor family members who have passed.
A jury in Santa Clara County on Wednesday convicted a Milpitas man of murder for killing his transgender partner in 2021, prosecutors said.
On Tuesday, the battle for LGBT rights took a new turn when the Pentagon announced that it was proactively changing the discharge status to "honorable" for hundreds of service members expelled for being gay during the "don't ask, don't tell" era.
John Ramos reports on the Pentagon announcing it will change the discharge status to "honorable" for hundreds expelled during "don't ask, don't tell" era.
With the release of part one of her new memoir, Cher talks about her relationship - on stage and off - with Sonny Bono, and why their TV partnership survived beyond their marriage.
One of the great voices in modern metal returns to the Bay Area the day before Thanksgiving when King Diamond headlines the Fox Theater in Oakland with support from thrash veterans Overkill and SoCal metal trio Night Demon.
Betty White will be honored with a stamp in 2025, the U.S. Postal Service announced on Friday.
The 46-year-old Houston native – whose name is Jason Head – was putting a gun away at his ranch when it "slipped out of the holster, hit the side of the jeep and discharged into his stomach area," his publicist said.
Jake Paul and Mike Tyson are set to fight in a major professional boxing match tonight. Here's how to watch and what time the bout starts.
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Oakland Unified School District has seen an alarming spike in the number of unhoused students in the school system who deal with a host of challenges far beyond what most children face.
Meteorologist and CBS News Bay Area's resident pilot Lt. Jessica Burch got a treat during Fleet Week, taking to the skies with one of the Blue Angels.
A Bay Area man discovered his devastating loss left him with a new opportunity to rethink how he lives -- follow his journey in virtual reality, 360-degree video.
A groundbreaking medical study involving the UCSF Medical Center has shown some colorectal cancer patients can safely skip radiation treatment and enjoy a potentially higher quality of life.
Every day, San Francisco bar pilot Captain Zach Kellerman goes through what might just be the world's most dangerous commute.
On Sunday in Pleasanton, fans of the game got a chance to see how the professionals do it, as a new league is bringing some of the best table tennis players in the world to the Bay Area.
Rain is on the way. Here's what we're tracking.
As the Bob Lee murder trial enters its sixth week, a defense attorney who has been in the court room breaks down the details.
Here's the latest headlines.
Oakland has a $93 million deficit, so experts say any kind of cut may effect staffing at the city's fire and police departments.
This week's Jefferson Award winner is a Berkeley woman who has promoted child literacy for four decades, as host of a community TV show encouraging young poets.
With hate crimes on the rise in the U.S., a pair of Oakland women have been equipping people with self-defense tools for free.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are two million photos worth? A history of Asian Americans in the Bay Area, for this week's Jefferson Award winner.
While stroke rehabilitation is often a difficult road, a South Bay couple is providing local patients some valuable support.
For nearly 50 years, a Vietnam veteran from San Francisco has served as a national champion for military veterans.
A Bay Area man who overcame tremendous obstacles to excel in school has made it his mission to gear up other students for success in the classroom and in life.
For Students Rising Above scholar Josh Collins it took moving across the country to realize the value of his Bay Area family.
Samir Hooker had to grow up fast after his stepfather was shot dead 12 years ago. Now he is watching over his mom and sister while attending UC Berkeley.
It's hard enough to graduate from one of the most prestigious schools in the country when you're the first in your family to go to college. Imagine doing that while you're also trying to protect your parents from being deported?
Some students who are the first in their families to go to college face the challenge of balancing a rigorous academic load while still working to help support their family back home.