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A powerful winter storm system will strengthen over the Pacific, bringing damaging winds, rain, and heavy mountain snow to an already soaked California beginning Monday night.Preceding storms have saturated soils which will result in trees coming down and the potential for more power outages, National Weather Service San Francisco meteorologist Roger Grass told CNN.

Survey says looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data.Buzz: Look inland if you're seeking a rental bargain in California.Source: My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a curious study by RentCafe comparing city rents.

It's Tuesday.Introducing the California issue of The New York Times Magazine.Plus, reparations proposals put Democrats in a quandary.Image Birds reflected in the Salton Sea in Desert Shores.Credit...Mette Lampcov for The New York Times The New York Times Magazine is doing something this week that it has never done before: dedicate an entire issue to California, where many of its readers live.

In the not too distant future, California's coastline and its iconic beaches could be washed away, leaving only cliffs behind.A new U.S. Geological Survey study found from 25% to 70% of California's beaches could erode by 2100 due to rising sea levels caused by global temperature increases and greenhouse gas emissions.

New documents EFF received through public records requests have revealed that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) received live access to the hundreds of surveillance cameras that comprise the Union Square Business Improvement District's (USBID) camera network in anticipation of potential protests following the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee.

As has become the custom, the lauded Michelin Guide surprise-announced a handful of additions to its California dining guide on Wednesday morning.Those who've been paying close attention to this year's rolling updates may remember that in early March, the guide dropped a batch of six additions, only one of which came from Northern California: Korean restaurant Bansang.

(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

It's a decades-old pursuit that's been attempted, thus far, unsuccessfully - but a group of El Dorado County residents are hoping to finally get their shot at breaking free from California.The new effort to separate from one of the largest states in the U.S. is brewing in one of its smallest counties.

Image Cloudy skies over Los Angeles last month.Credit...Mike Blake/Reuters June Gloom has long been part of the California lexicon, an almost-rhyming reminder that a few weeks of overcast skies typically precede a sunny, scalding summer.But perhaps you, like me, feel the gloom has gone a little overboard this year.

While the debate about cross-subsidization, the politicization of the agencies and whether we even need LLPAs rages on, we wanted to look at the practical implications of the FHFA courting borrowers at the bottom rungs of the pricing matrices and making it more expensive for other prospective borrowers.

Big Sur, California, is four hours south of Napa and five hours north of Los Angeles, and appears ex nihilo, all ocean clear to the horizon, and then suddenly: a black mountain range jutting from an azure sea.The Santa Lucias are draped with green redwoods and spiky sagebrush, and carved into its severe mountainside, 300 feet over the misty, lapping ocean, is Route 1. Today, Big Sur remains isolated, which for locals is its allure, but which also makes it vulnerable.

A San Francisco judge accepted yet another delay in the case against the San Francisco police officer who shot and killed Sean Moore - reneging on her promise last month that she would not allow any additional delays.Scott Burrell, the defense attorney for Officer Kenneth Cha, said he needs additional time and plans to file two defense motions, one of which blames "irregularities in the prosecution of the case" under former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who originally brought the case.

After a four-year hiatus, El Niño is widely expected to make a grand reentrance this summer, ushering in the possibility of yet another wet, stormy winter."It looks like it's full steam ahead," UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said in a live YouTube interview last week, in which he placed the likelihood of a strong El Niño event at greater than 50% - even as projections still vary widely.

(Shira Jacobson / Sweet Farm Foundation)

Last year, Nate Salpeter and his wife, Anna Sweet, moved their animal sanctuary from California to western New York in the hopes of dodging the regular wildfires that had threatened their safety and the health of the creatures in their care.But this week, Salpeter once again smelled smoke.

On Thursday, May 25, 2023, Divas & Drinks @ The Academy emcee Donna Sachet welcomed to The Academy SF in the Castro contributors and supporters of the "Aging in Community" special editions published by the San Francisco Bay Times in the May 4 and May 18 issues.Through a series of presentations that included both personal anecdotes as well as heartfelt words of appreciation, the leadership and years of service of Openhouse Founder and longtime LGBTQ+ senior advocate Dr. Marcy Adelman, who curated the sections, was celebrated.

With the U.S.'s Memorial Day weekend behind us, the calendar flips to June.And with that, the eyes of the ultrarunning world - and those of this columnist!- are directed to the Western States 100.Taking place this year on June 24, this year's Western States 100, like every year, is filled with intriguing stories.

Brian Shul, a retired Air Force major who modestly described himself as a survivor rather than a hero, after he was downed in a Vietnamese jungle, where he nearly died before rebounding to pilot the world's fastest spy plane, died on May 20 in Reno, Nev.He was 75.The cause of his death, in a hospital, was cardiac arrest, said his sister and sole survivor, Maureen Shul, a former mayor of Castle Pines, Colo.

It's Amtrak Joe vs. Cutter Kevin.The future of interstate rail travel is in jeopardy if the White House caves to House Republican spending cuts as part of the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations, advocates say.Rail supporters and Democratic leaders blasted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)for seeking to slash federal spending by 22 percent on housing, transportation, and urban development in a move that would curtail rail safety and stymie the nation's transportation network for generations.

(Gustavo Arellano / Los Angeles Times)

A 29-year-old man was arrested Saturday in Northern California after allegedly making a series of shooting, death and bomb threats over the last six months against Laguna Hills High School, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said.Eugene Thomas Jenkins of San Rafael was booked into Orange County Jail on suspicion of multiple felony offenses including making criminal threats, the false report of a bomb, the false report of an emergency, and threatening a public officer.

(Ric Tapia / Los Angeles Times)

After a week of online vitriol and transphobia aimed at two runners scheduled to compete at the state track and field preliminaries Friday, neither showed up to the starting line of their scheduled 1600-meter heats at Buchanan High in Clovis."The CIF is disappointed for two of our student-athletes and their families because due to the actions of others, they found it necessary to withdraw from the State Track and Field Championships out of concern for the student's well being," the California Interscholastic Federation, the governing body for high school sports in California, wrote in a statement provided to The Los Angeles Times.

(California Department of Water Resources)

The Kern River is swollen with so much runoff from the epic Sierra Nevada snowpack that state water officials have decided to open a rarely used relief valve, diverting floodwaters into the California Aqueduct to be used as drinking water in Southern California.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Southern Californians had a wet commute Thursday morning after an unusual May storm dumped rain and snow on the region.Rainfall totals through 8 a.m.included: 0.36 inches in downtown Los Angeles, 0.34 inches in Long Beach, 0.10 inches at Los Angeles International Airport, 0.63 inches in Burbank and 1.90 inches in Pasadena, according to the National Weather Service.

(Cheatham County [Tenn.]Sheriff's Office)

A woman who left on a cross-country trip from Tennessee and was reported missing by her family after a domestic dispute in New Mexico was spotted in Northern California over the weekend, according to her family.Nikki Alcaraz, 33, left her home in Cheatham County, Tenn., with her boyfriend and a dog earlier this month in her black Jeep Wrangler.

Representative Ro Khanna of California said on Sunday that he would not run in an already crowded Democratic field seeking to succeed his state's senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, who is retiring at the end of her term.In deep-blue California, the winner of the Democratic primary is likely to join Alex Padilla in representing the state in the Senate.