In the last few years, home insurance bills that have doubled or tripled in cost. And an increasing number of California homeowners are unable to find a private insurer at all.
After wildfires, rising insurance costs cause California homeowners to feel the heat Read More »
Farmworker Caravan delivers nonperishable foods and household essentials to Santa Clara, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Benito and San Luis Obispo Counties, where local organizations distribute the items to more than 500 farmworker families once a month.
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BAY AREA — PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoff events left nearly one million customers across Northern California without power, and knocked out nearly 60% of cell towers in certain counties. It also highlighted critical gaps in communication infrastructure that local government agencies are now scrambling to address.
BAY AREA — Universities across the Bay Area have grappled with the impacts of the Kincade Fire and PG&E’s preventive power outages, that left over 1.5 million Californians without of power throughout October.
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SACRAMENTO — The Kincade Fire in Sonoma County prompted large-scale evacuations on Oct. 26 and forced thousands of residents to flee their homes. But it wasn’t just humans that were displaced by the fire — pets and animals living at shelters also had to evacuate. The Sacramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals took in a total of 42 animals from Sonoma County.
Kincade Fire forces adoptable animals to evacuate twice Read More »
Peninsula Press reporters cover the outbreak of wildfires and mass power shutoffs that hit Northern California last week.
Special Report: Peninsula communities grapple with wildfires, power outages Read More »
CALIFORNIA — For many homeowners in California where headline-making wildfires have burned homes, led to power outages and caused billions of dollars in damages, getting property and casualty insurance becomes a key challenge.
CALIFORNIA — In September, even before the October wildfires began to ravage parts of northern and southern California, governor Gavin Newsom announced two contracts totaling nearly $2 million for developing technology to facilitate wildfire detection and emergency decision-making.
As fires rage, California takes steps to integrate technology into wildfire management Read More »
SONOMA COUNTY — When the Kincade Fire swept through Sonoma County last week, one thought crossed the minds of homeowners and builders alike: Will we have to rebuild again?
2017 Tubbs Fire provides playbook for rebuilding After Kincade Fire Read More »
PALO ALTO – During PG&E’s latest round of power shutoffs to reduce fire risk, the utility worked with local independent living centers to provide back-up power and hotel vouchers for people with disabilities.
PG&E provides batteries and hotel vouchers for some Californians with disabilities Read More »
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — Autumn brought PG&E unprecedented power outages, wildfires, and massive forced evacuations, problems that would strain any utility. But for PG&E there was an additional challenge: it had to do so while undergoing the largest bankruptcy of a public utility in history.
A Hot Mess: PG&E fights fires in the wild and creditors in court Read More »
SANTA ROSA — Two months later, an often-overlooked community of indigenous immigrants from Mexico is still struggling to recover from the deadly Wine Country fires .
After North Bay fires, indigenous Mexican immigrants struggle in silence, isolation Read More »
