野火

环境

Virus will not extinguish wildfire protection, Newsom says

Despite a projected $54 billion budget shortfall, California officials vow to continue funding for wildfire-related projects.

经过 朱莉·卡特 • 5 月 13, 2020

高等教育

Disasters have shut down California colleges in the past: Here’s how they fared

Officials at Butte College gathered one fall Wednesday in 2018 for a tabletop exercise in disaster planning. As California’s fire seasons had become more deadly, utilities were threatening to shut off power as a way of preventing downed lines from igniting blazes. Other catastrophes, such as school shootings, were also on officials’ minds. Administrators at […]

经过 费利西亚梅洛 • 5 月 4, 2020

重要的事情

Newsom: We’re not waiting on feds

Newsom calls on retired doctors, medical students to help with coronavirus response as number of ICU cases triples in span of four days.

经过 Emily Hoeven • 3 月 31, 2020

重要的事情

“Soft closure” of state parks

California needs 50,000 more hospital beds because of coronavirus. Newsom orders "soft closure" of state parking lots. PG&E pleads guilty to wildfire charges.

经过 Emily Hoeven • 3 月 24, 2020

重要的事情

A pandemic-induced recession

California braces for a coronavirus-induced recession as economic prognosis grows grim. Residents flock to local parks to escape cabin fever.

经过 Emily Hoeven • 3 月 23, 2020

加州野火

Newsom and PG&E strike deal to end company’s bankruptcy

The utility agreed not to pay shareholder dividends for three years — a $4 billion forfeiture. And it will get more state oversight.

经过 Judy Lin • 3 月 20, 2020

政治

Why is Newsom suddenly saying such nice things about Trump?

Since the coronavirus pandemic, the Democratic governor of "the most un-Trump state in America," as he once termed it, has been so conciliatory toward the president — and so unlike that of Democratic governors elsewhere — that he's being praised by Republicans and Fox News. 

经过 劳雷尔·罗森霍尔 • 3 月 13, 2020

重要的事情

California starting to close down

California events canceled amid coronavirus pandemic. Prop. 13 campaign concedes defeat. State reaches settlement over T-Mobile and Sprint merger.

经过 Emily Hoeven • 3 月 12, 2020

环境

To help Californians endure fire-related power cutoffs, state ponders new rules for utilities

Authorities may ask utility companies to provide real-time outage updates, help create community centers where vulnerable people can seek refuge and practice better notification procedures. 

经过 朱莉·卡特 • 3 月 5, 2020

重要的事情

Newsom on coronavirus + PG&E’s record fine + A new drought, perhaps + Bernie Sanders’ loyalists

Newsom weighs in on coronavirus. PG&E hit with record fine for wildfires. California faces prospect of new drought after dry February.

经过 Dan Morain • 2 月 28, 2020