California’s power grid is typically tested during wildfire season or intense heat waves, but a winter storm system has challenged the state’s electric grid in new ways. Experts say resiliency measures are needed.
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Two more rainstorms bring new dangers to California as officials tally widespread damage
A more intense atmospheric river is expected to arrive over California on Monday, bringing damaging winds along with heavy precipitation. Flash flooding and debris flow are possible over recently burned areas. Officials warned about an increasing risk of avalanches as snow piles up in the mountains.
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‘Shut it down!’: Picketers disrupt UC regents meeting as strike drags into fifth week
More than a month on strike from their jobs as teaching assistants and researchers, hundreds of academic employees rallied outside Wednesday’s meeting of the University of California regents at UCLA.
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UC says strikers’ demand to tie pay to housing costs could have ‘overwhelming’ cost impacts
Tying workers’ pay to their housing costs could have “overwhelming financial impacts” for the University of California, a system provost warned amid a strike that stretched into its third day across the UC’s 10 campuses.
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Mountain lions are eating California wild donkeys. Why scientists say this a good thing
Feral donkeys are considered invasive in Death Valley National Park, but new research shows increased predation by mountain lions could help balance the treasured ecosystem.
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Record gas prices, electricity woes show California’s worsening energy vulnerabilities
California gas prices hit highs as refinery issues affect supplies. The volatility highlights vulnerabilities of the state’s transitioning energy market.
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California pushed to the limit by a relentless heat wave that broke the mold
All-time record temperatures. Hot nights. Broiling beaches. Here’s why this California heat wave was so extreme.
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A vicious ‘heat dome’ is broiling California, causing heat waves that keep getting worse
The high-pressure system over most of California is expected to bring record-breaking temperatures, part of a “self-perpetuating” system that is becoming more extreme as climate change worsens.
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Californians increasingly searching for limited monkeypox vaccines
Eight of the top 10 metro areas searching online for nearby monkeypox vaccines over the last week were in California.
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California’s LGBTQ community feeling ignored, angry, confused as monkeypox cases rise
“The government isn’t going to take it seriously until straight people start getting it,” said one man who tested positive. “Thankfully it’s nothing like AIDS, but it feels like the government response has failed in the same way with AIDS, or with COVID.”