A houseboat is beached at Shasta Lake in late June 2021, amid a parched summer. At a point in the year when California’s water storage should be at its highest, the state’s two largest reservoirs have already dropped to critically low levels — a sobering outlook for the hotter and drier months ahead. Lake Oroville, the largest reservoir in the …
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A Northern California county will face greater restrictions as it grapples with a surge in coronavirus cases, many of them tied to an evangelical college where more than 120 students and staff have tested positive in the last two weeks, health officials said Tuesday. Shasta County health officials said an outbreak of cases among students and staff at the Bethel …