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  2. Northern California bear euthanized after it broke into homes ...

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    May 16, 2024 at 8:08 AM. A bear that authorities said was constantly breaking into homes and businesses in a Northern California town, creating havoc and endangering residents, was euthanized ...

  3. Oroville Dam crisis - Wikipedia

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    Oroville Dam, an important part of the California State Water Project, is an earthen embankment dam on the Feather River, east of the city of Oroville in Northern California. The dam is used for flood control, water storage, hydroelectric power generation, and water quality improvement in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. [1] : .

  4. California roasts in record high temperatures as heat wave ...

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    Fairfield, a town in the northeast of the San Francisco Bay Area, shattered its all-time high on Monday, hitting 117°F. San Jose, with a population of over 1 million, was forecast to reach 108°F ...

  5. Partition and secession in California - Wikipedia

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    In 2020, "Move Oregon's Border For a Greater Idaho" proposed breaking off most of Oregon's area and some of Northern California and join it with Idaho. The areas proposed to break off of Oregon and California vote Republican but in a state whose legislatures are dominated by Democrats. Douglas and Josephine counties in Oregon approved language ...

  6. Northern Lights: Will they be visible in San Francisco Bay Area?

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    Fox local. May 10, 2024 at 2:54 PM. OAKLAND, Calif. - A severe solar storm could make the ethereal Northern Lights visible across a majority of the United States – and it's quite possible the ...

  7. 2021 California wildfires - Wikipedia

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    The 2021 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the U.S. state of California. By the end of 2021 a total of 8,835 fires were recorded, burning 2,568,948 acres (1,039,616 ha) across the state. [1] Approximately 3,629 structures were damaged or destroyed by the wildfires, and at least seven firefighters and two ...

  8. August 2020 California lightning wildfires - Wikipedia

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    The August 2020 California lightning wildfires (also referred to as the August lightning siege or August wildfire siege) were a series of 650 wildfires that ignited across Northern California in mid-August 2020, due to a siege of dry lightning from rare, massive summer thunderstorms, which were caused by an unusual combination of very hot, dry air at the surface, dry fuels, and advection of ...

  9. Northern California braces for extreme heat this week, with ...

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    Forecasters issued excessive heat warnings for Thursday and Friday in the northern Sacramento Valley, Trinity County and Siskiyou County. Northern California braces for extreme heat this week ...