BUSINESS
April 7, 1995 | Times Staff and Wire Reports
Supermarket Workers Strike in Northern California: United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 870 spokesman Len Konecny said 15,000 meat cutters, food clerks and baggers walked off their jobs at more than 200 Safeway stores shortly after midnight Wednesday. Pickets went up at Safeway stores from Fresno to the Oregon border.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 9, 2010 | By Ruben Vives, Louis Sahagun, Patrick McDonnell, Cara Mia Dimassa and Rong-Gong Lin II
The earthquake near Eureka, Calif., this afternoon -- a reported magnitude 6.5 -- snapped power lines, toppled televisions and shook up local stores, but so far no injuries have been reported. The quake struck at 4:27 p.m. and was centered under the Pacific Ocean, about 25 miles southwest of Eureka. A tsunami was not expected, according to the National Weather Service. About 25,000 customers were without power, according to Jeff Smith, spokesman for Pacific Gas & Electric Co. "We've got some downed power lines as well as some other damage to other equipment," he said.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 30, 2008 | Jack Leonard, Times Staff Writer
As more than 1,000 fires continued to burn in California, flames advanced toward more homes near Big Sur on Sunday, but firefighters said they had made progress in protecting an isolated Buddhist retreat in Los Padres National Forest. Fire officials advised residents of Palo Colorado Canyon, a hamlet of about 250 homes north of Big Sur, to evacuate as the Basin Complex fire continued its advance.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 2, 2001 | TERENCE MONMANEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
It's no comfort to the people of Weaverville, where a fire charred 1,680 acres and destroyed 13 residences last week, but 2001 has been a curiously mild year for California wildfires. So far. Since January, fire has consumed 45,000 acres of wild land statewide, 10,000 fewer than at this time last year--and 27,000 fewer than the five-year average for late August.
NEWS
September 10, 1987 | MARK A. STEIN and PENELOPE McMILLAN, Times Staff Writers
Aided by cooler temperatures, less wind and progress in cutting new fire lines, officials expressed "cautious optimism" Wednesday about the dozen or so lightning-sparked wildfires still burning in Trinity County. "Things are looking pretty optimistic right now," said Mel Ingeroi, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Land Management in Hayfork. Other officials said the feeling along most fire lines, where 4,559 firefighters have been battling the blazes, is "confident but not complacent."
BUSINESS
September 15, 1987 | HARRY BERNSTEIN
The increasingly critical national shortage of nurses, a serious teacher shortage, the recent rash of nurses' strikes in Northern California and teacher strikes in Chicago, Detroit and other cities combine to pose a riddle: Why are both nurses and teachers so poorly paid, considering the urgent need for more of them, their high education levels, their heavy responsibilities and the usually stressful, difficult nature of their jobs?