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2 weeks, 6 days ago

7.0 earthquake rattles Northern California, spurs anxiety before tsunami warning is canceled

LA Times

A magnitude 7 earthquake about 30 miles off the Humboldt County shoreline prompted a highly unusual tsunami warning for a wide swath of the Northern California coast Thursday, spurring widespread evacuations before it was canceled an hour later. California Why a massive California tsunami alert was issued — then soon canceled Coastal areas in Northern California began evacuating residents after …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Elephant shocks scientists after teaching itself to shower using hose

The Independent

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3 months, 1 week ago

Sleeping with a pillow or blanket outdoors can be a sign of illegal camping in Santa Monica

LA Times

Devon O’Malley, left, a harm reduction case manager with the Venice Family Clinic, and Chelsea Agee, a prevention advocate with the Venice Family Clinic, talk with Ken Newark, 63, who is homeless, at Tongva Park in Santa Monica. “I don’t care whether they have a pillow, a backpack, a tent or a cooking stove, they’re living in our streets and …

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4 months ago

Humboldt officials accuse San Francisco of busing the city’s homeless problems north

LA Times

Humboldt County leaders say they’re worried that San Francisco’s aggressive efforts to relocate homeless people to other cities will simply shift the problem to other jurisdictions. During their Tuesday meeting, Humboldt County supervisors debated sending a draft letter, addressed to Breed, questioning whether San Francisco was making sure the homeless people it’s busing out actually land housing and jobs. As …

Housing City Homeless San Francisco County San Sent

5 months, 1 week ago

Grisly discovery in Humboldt County takes a turn: Suspected animal bones could be human

LA Times

Jan 2022 photo of a woman and her dog walking along the Eel River in Humboldt County. At first authorities thought the remains found near a Humboldt County river were just animal bones. The macabre discovery was made by a Redway resident who was swimming in the Eel River on July 6, when they saw what appeared to be animal …

Bone Humboldt County

5 months, 1 week ago

Cal Poly Humboldt president to step down months after campus crackdowns

LA Times

After a five-year run, Cal Poly Humboldt University President Tom Jackson Jr. will transition into a tenured professorship at the rural Northern California institution. Cal Poly Humboldt University President Tom Jackson Jr. announced Thursday that he is leaving his post at the rural Northern California institution next month, less than four months after the campus drew national attention for its …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Explore the California spot serving up weed country fun the wine country way

LA Times

As you drive through some of California’s most storied agricultural land, a few hours north of the Bay Area, you’ll zoom past fields full of plants straining under the weight of their almost-ready-to-harvest bounty. Throw a weed-friendly wedding at Yokayo Ranch Ukiah’s Yokayo Ranch, which has been catering to the cannabis-friendly wedding crowd since 2019, is right next door to …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Encampments spread across California universities. Are they living on borrowed time?

LA Times

A pro-Palestinian encampment was erected on the campus of Cal State L.A. last week. Protesters have asked for an end to “violent extremism” funding, promised amnesty for student protesters, a commitment to an academic boycott of Israel and removal of what the group calls “Zionist programming.” UC Irvine leaders proposed a meeting between the student organization and college representatives to …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

California college campuses become lightning rods for pro-Palestinian protests

LA Times

A pro-Palestinian protester waves a flag while attending a demonstration next to an encampment at UC Irvine. More than two dozen demonstrators formed a line in front of the encampment and chanted “UCPD, KKK, IOF you’re all the same,” and, “Shame, shame, shame on you, you have blood on your hands too.” Campus police erected additional barricades around 3 a.m. …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

With furry costumes, water jugs and tambourines, this tiny California college became a Gaza flashpoint

LA Times

Before dawn Tuesday, more than 100 law enforcement officers in riot gear marched into the quad of Cal Poly Humboldt, clutching guns and batons. At the time, the university’s president visited the sit-in to talk to students, praising their action as “a real demonstration of your commitment to student access, achievement and completion.” “Look at our mission,” Silvaggio said, pointing …

Law Enforcement Students University Building Graffiti Campus California

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Police swarm Cal Poly Humboldt, arresting at least 25 and ending weeklong siege over Gaza war

LA Times

Ending a weeklong siege, police on Tuesday arrested at least 25 protesters at Cal Poly Humboldt, where Gaza war demonstrators had occupied buildings and forced the campus to close. In a statement Monday, Sacramento State President J. Luke Wood said the campus “remains open and fully operational” while demonstrators camp in the Library Quad. On Monday, UC Riverside Chancellor Kim …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Tense standoff at Cal Poly Humboldt ends with arrest of dozens of Gaza war protesters

LA Times

After a tense standoff overnight with Gaza war protesters at Cal Poly Humboldt, police moved in early Tuesday and arrested at least 25 people, including students and professors. We’ve all watched this with great concern, and always with the sincere hope that it would be resolved peacefully,” Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson Jr. said in a statement. “Our arrest …

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8 months ago

Amid Gaza protests, ‘hateful graffiti,’ Cal Poly Humboldt closes campus through weekend

LA Times

Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy a building Monday on the campus of Cal Poly Humboldt. Cal Poly Humboldt will remain closed through the weekend, with classwork continuing remotely as the Northern California university struggles with Gaza protests and what it calls “hateful graffiti” on campus. “Unidentified non-students with unknown intentions” are occupying Siemens Hall, the university said, which creates an “unpredictable environment.” …

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8 months ago

A look at the protests of the war in Gaza that have emerged at US colleges

Associated Press

Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up at many college campuses after being inspired by demonstrators at Columbia University. UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT Police moved in on a campus encampment at the Storrs, Connecticut, school Tuesday morning and arrested 25 protesters after giving them several warnings to leave, UConn spokesperson Stephanie Reitz said. They were charged with criminal trespass …

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8 months ago

Tensions grow at California universities as Gaza protests roil campuses from Berkeley to New York

LA Times

Pro-Palestinian protesters set up tents in front of Sproul Hall on the campus of UC Berkeley on Monday. Three students were arrested after law enforcement officers wearing helmets and riot shields descended on the public university in Arcata, in rural Northern California, and clashed with demonstrators who had set up tents inside Siemens Hall and erected a banner that said, …

Students Protests Building Palestine California Protest New York

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: I was homeless in college. California can do more for students who sleep in their cars

LA Times

Students study in their campers on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus, which announced in October that sleeping in vehicles on campus would be prohibited. An estimated one in five of the state’s 2 million community college students are unhoused; overall, students are more likely to experience homelessness if they are LGBTQ+, Black or Indigenous. The prevalence of students in California …

Housing Sleep Students Car Student Campus College

8 months, 2 weeks ago

An old rail track in Northern California could become a 300-mile hiking trail

LA Times

More than a century ago, a railroad was constructed to shuttle passengers and redwood logs between San Francisco and Humboldt Bay. “I would put it in the category of the Pacific Crest Trail, the Appalachian Trail — these large, landscape-scale trails that provide an experience for people to see areas that they just would never have access to otherwise,” said …

California Plan Great Old Coast Areas Rail

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: What if Bruce’s Beach was just the start? Why more stolen land is about be returned

LA Times

Amparo Rodriguez, 68, makes her way to work at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica. “The more that we normalize options and processes for folks to really have reparative justice, the more it becomes a mainstream thought.” And yet, I suspect this potential to normalize an economic reordering of society is one reason why there’s so much opposition to reparations …

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1 year ago

Editorial: Homeless college students just need safe overnight parking. How tough can that be?

LA Times

Cal Poly Humboldt students Brad Butterfield and Maddy Montiel prepare to move their campers on Nov. 17. Two years ago, Long Beach City College officials decided they had to do something to help homeless students who lived out of their cars, at least until it could find housing for them. Opinion Editorial: Let California’s homeless community college students park overnight …

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1 year ago

Cal Poly Humboldt students live in vehicles to afford college. They were ordered off campus

LA Times

Maddy Montiel and Brad Butterfield marveled at the community they found this semester at Cal Poly Humboldt. Tom Jackson, Cal Poly Humboldt’s president, declined an interview request through spokesperson Aileen Yoo, who said university staff is also available to help students find longer-term housing solutions. Students Brad Butterfield and Maddy Montiel, along with their dog Ollie, prepare for class after …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Will your home survive a major quake? Free cash from California can help

LA Times

Jacqui McIntosh of Rio Dell in Humboldt County inspects the damage to her home after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck in December 2022. With more than a million California houses in need of seismic retrofitting, the California Earthquake Authority and the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services launched a program 10 years ago to cover at least part of the cost …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Her mother disappeared. Then her babysitter. A lawman fears she might be next

LA Times

In Indian Country, everybody seems to know somebody who’s gone missing or been murdered. :: Eleven years before Emmilee Risling was last seen, another Native woman disappeared : 32-year-old Sumi Juan, an artist known for her quilting and a mother of three daughters, including O’Rourke’s foster daughter, Charlene. “In a metaphorical sense, and actually running away.” Charlene pingponged back and …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Historic California storm closes Interstate 5 at the Grapevine

LA Times

A frigid winter storm barreled into California on Friday, bringing sea-level snow along the coast at Eureka and whiteout conditions in the Sierra as well as bursts of hail, snow and rain in Southern California that are expected to worsen considerably over the next two days. #CAwx pic.twitter.com/MAq7kGVpDF — NWS San Diego February 23, 2023 “What is really kind of …

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1 year, 11 months ago

What offshore wind power could mean for California (when turbines eventually start spinning)

LA Times

A floating offshore wind farm in Scotland, operated by Equinor, an international energy company. According to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the newly auctioned parcels have “the potential to produce over 4.6 gigawatts of offshore wind energy, enough to power over 1.5 million homes.” If you’re like me and Marty McFly, you’re probably wondering: What the hell is a …

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7.0 earthquake rattles Northern California, spurs anxiety before tsunami warning is canceled

Elephant shocks scientists after teaching itself to shower using hose

Sleeping with a pillow or blanket outdoors can be a sign of illegal camping in Santa Monica

Humboldt officials accuse San Francisco of busing the city’s homeless problems north

Grisly discovery in Humboldt County takes a turn: Suspected animal bones could be human

Cal Poly Humboldt president to step down months after campus crackdowns

Explore the California spot serving up weed country fun the wine country way

Encampments spread across California universities. Are they living on borrowed time?

California college campuses become lightning rods for pro-Palestinian protests

With furry costumes, water jugs and tambourines, this tiny California college became a Gaza flashpoint

Police swarm Cal Poly Humboldt, arresting at least 25 and ending weeklong siege over Gaza war

Tense standoff at Cal Poly Humboldt ends with arrest of dozens of Gaza war protesters

Amid Gaza protests, ‘hateful graffiti,’ Cal Poly Humboldt closes campus through weekend

A look at the protests of the war in Gaza that have emerged at US colleges

Tensions grow at California universities as Gaza protests roil campuses from Berkeley to New York

Opinion: I was homeless in college. California can do more for students who sleep in their cars

An old rail track in Northern California could become a 300-mile hiking trail

Column: What if Bruce’s Beach was just the start? Why more stolen land is about be returned

Editorial: Homeless college students just need safe overnight parking. How tough can that be?

Cal Poly Humboldt students live in vehicles to afford college. They were ordered off campus

Will your home survive a major quake? Free cash from California can help

Her mother disappeared. Then her babysitter. A lawman fears she might be next

Historic California storm closes Interstate 5 at the Grapevine

What offshore wind power could mean for California (when turbines eventually start spinning)