Plagued by gang violence for years, the city of Salinas has taken the standard approaches: beefed-up police patrols, court injunctions, parenting classes, high-minded gatherings of experts.
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California’s
U.S. senators have introduced a bill to rename the state’s third-highest peak after David Brower, the fiery environmental activist who whipped the Sierra Club into a national force.
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As firefighters from as far away as Australia arrived to help exhausted California crews, officials said today that the blazes have set the state’s record for area burned in a single “fire event.”
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A wildfire that has burned more than 49,500 acres in Butte County was headed toward greater containment today as firefighters lifted immediate evacuation orders on 3,000 homes in the western part of the county and cooler weather helped ease the fire threat.
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Firefighters battling a pair of stubborn blazes considered the most serious threats to homes among the hundreds of fires burning in California began today heartened about their chances.
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Among the residents of Big Sur displaced by the fire are dozens of endangered California condors that have been carefully bred and released into the Ventana Wilderness.
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A fast-moving wildfire that consumed some 6,600 acres rained smoke and ash from the mountains Friday, leaving residents here wondering whether a stiffer breeze would come up to sweep the blaze into their neighborhoods overnight.
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This town of 6,700 sits amid the richest oil fields in California, but nobody would mistake it for Dubai.
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In this remote Zen enclave on Big Sur’s forested backside, wildfires lurk on three sides.
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