Evacuations lifted after more than 14,000 acres burned
Despite a wet winter and heavy snowpack, California’s 2024 wildfire season kicked off over the weekend with the state’s largest blaze of the year, the Corral Fire south of Tracy …
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Battery-powered California faces lower blackout risk this summer
By David R. Baker | Bloomberg California expects to avoid rolling blackouts this summer as new solar plants and large batteries plug into the state’s grid at a rapid clip. …
Home insurance companies may use aerial images to drop policies
By Sarah Schlichter | NerdWallet It’s a notice no homeowner wants to get: Your insurance company has decided not to renew your policy, effective in 30 days. The reason? Based …
As Californians mitigate wildfire threats, why is there still an insurance crisis?
Spend any time thinking or talking about insurance in California these days and you’re bound to hear the word “mitigation.” Fire officials, lawmakers, insurance agents and others are asking homeowners …
The CZU fire burned 911 homes over an area three times the size of San Francisco. How a huge new project aims to reduce the risk of the next one.
It’s been nearly four years since the CZU Lightning Complex Fire raged through the Santa Cruz Mountains, destroying 911 homes, devastating Big Basin Redwoods State Park and blackening 86,500 acres …
Allstate will insure California homes again, under one condition
By Nadia Lopez | Bloomberg Allstate Corp. will end its years-long pause on underwriting in California as soon as the state regulator adopts proposed regulatory changes to make it easier …
Climate change supercharged a heat dome, intensifying 2021 fire season, study finds
Alex Wigglesworth | Los Angeles Times (TNS) As a massive heat dome lingered over the Pacific Northwest three years ago, swaths of North America simmered— and then burned. Wildfires charred more than 18.5 million acres across …
The first US Climate Corps jobs are here
Alicia Clanton | (TNS) Bloomberg News Restoring coastal ecosystems with oysters in Florida, protecting forests from wildfire in California and maintaining a cultural site (the Pearl Harbor National Memorial) in …
Gov. Newsom announces first new state park in a decade and sets climate goals for natural lands
By SOPHIE AUSTIN | Associated Press/Report for America MODESTO — California will open its first new state park in a decade this summer, Gov. Gavin Newsom and state officials announced …
The Old Road, used when The Grapevine is closed, set for $250 million widening
When the Route Fire burned about 5,000 acres near Castaic in August 2022, prompting closure of the 5 Freeway at The Grapevine followed by weeks of lane closures for repairs, …