Fear, anxiety and confusion swept across the West Coast early Thursday when a rare tsunami warning was issued for parts of Northern California and southern Oregon following a magnitude 7 earthquake that hit about 55 miles off the shore of Eureka. Evacuations were ordered. Sirens went off. Service was suspended on the Bay Area’s commuter…
A tsunami warning was briefly issued Thursday following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck in California’s Humboldt County, 7 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, the National Weather Service said in a bulletin. Cellphones in the coast regions of Northern California and Southern Oregon rang out with an “Emergency Alert” at 10:51 a.m. PST. Just before noon…
Over two decades after his death at age 77, a chunk of Charles M. Schulz’s onetime Northern California estate is newly available. The legendary cartoonist, the creator of the iconic Peanuts comic strip, acquired a bucolic 28-acre property in the Sonoma County town of Sebastopol in the early 1960s at the height of his career. The residence…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For decades a small, landless tribe in Northern California has been on a mission to get land, open a casino and tap into the gaming market enjoyed by so many other tribes that earn millions of dollars annually. The Koi Nation’s chances of owning a Las Vegas-style casino seemed impossible until…