California Drought: Power Plant At Oroville Dam Shut Down Due To Low Water Levels
For the first time ever, water levels at Lake Oroville are so low due to drought and heat, its power plant had to be shut down.
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For the first time ever, water levels at Lake Oroville are so low due to drought and heat, its power plant had to be shut down.
With a mixture of excitement and a little anxiety, Oakland teachers were busy getting their classrooms ready Friday as the district's more than 36,000 students were preparing for a return to fall classes next week.
A Windsor man faces jail time and will be forced to register as a sex offender after being convicted for sexual battery on a child, Sonoma County prosecutors said.
Republican talk radio host Larry Elder has fortified his ascendant status among Republicans who want to replace Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in a September recall election, raising $4.5 million for his campaign in just 19 days and rapidly eclipsing prominent rivals.
Oakland Athletics outfielder Ramon Laureano will miss the rest of the 2021 season after violating Major League Baseball's policy on performance enhancing substances.
Two powerful California Republicans urged members of the state GOP Friday to withhold an endorsement in the upcoming recall election that could remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office.
Preliminary autopsy results for Philip Kreycik, the missing Berkeley jogger found dead in a Pleasanton park, do not show any indication of trauma, all but confirming that succumbed to a medical emergency possibly due to the heat, according to the sheriff's office.
Two suspects in a fatal shooting in San Francisco's South of Market district in May were arrested Thursday following two simultaneous warrants served in two locations, police said.
Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib said he has received "nothing but love and support" from his teammates after he came out as gay earlier this summer.
San Francisco Department of Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax on Thursday clarified the department's stance on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for people who previously received the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine.
Crews have finished removing burned metal, concrete, ash and contaminated soil from Napa County properties affected by 2020 wildfires, the Governor's Office of Emergency Services announced Thursday.
A large smoke plume from several wildfires raging in the state, drifted over the San Francisco Bay Area Friday, casting a haze over the horizon and triggering an air quality advisory that will remain in effect until Sunday.
Gov. Gavin Newson boldly predicted Friday that if there was a massive surge in unvaccinated Californians getting a shot of vaccine, the rapid rise of COVID delta variant cases and indoor mask mandates for business and public places could end within 30 days.
An elderly San Francisco woman was found stabbed in the city's Sunset District late Thursday night after she was reported missing by her family hours earlier.
The Dixie Fire in Northern California grew by 110 square miles between Thursday night and Friday morning, making the blaze the largest wildfire currently raging in the country.
