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A sea of yellow and orange wildflowers splatter across the Carrizo Plain National Monument on April 21, 2024. |
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Top places to see wildflowers around the Bay Area |
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Stems of purple lupine blossom along Grizzly Peak Boulevard in Berkeley, on April 26, 2023. |
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Locke’s lunar new year celebration |
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Sophia Dmaneewong, 8, performs a lion dance with Eastern Ways during the Chinese New Year celebration in Locke on Feb. 14, 2026. |
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Teens walked out of school to protest ICE. Police are investigating the adults who helped them |
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Alfred Aldrete in the Tower District in Fresno on Feb. 27, 2026. Aldrete believes he is one of six people the Clovis Police Department is considering charging after he helped with security during a student-walkout protest against federal immigration raids earlier that month. |
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‘Yikes’: Bay Area heat lingers, Sierra Nevada snowpack melting fast |
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Alameda South Shore Beach in Alameda on March 20, 2026. As unseasonable warmth lingers across the Bay Area, one climate expert warns of the near disappearance of the state’s snowpack in the Sierra Nevada. |
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Oakland mass shooting leaves community in shock |
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Friends and family of the late Latetia Bobo release balloons at her vigil in Oakland on March 9, 2026. Latetia Bobo was one of two victims who died in a mass shooting in Oakland on March 7, 2026.
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Oakland mass shooting leaves community in shock |
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Photo by Tâm Vũ for KQED |
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Yasmin Chapadense, a student of Latetia Bobo’s, places a lit candle on a table honoring her memory at her vigil in Oakland on March 9, 2026. Latetia Bobo was one of two victims who died in a mass shooting in Oakland on March 7, 2026. |
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To save her daughter’s life, she advocated for her rights to be taken away |
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Photo by Salgu Wissmath for Shasta Scout/CatchLight |
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Marci Fernandes poses for a portrait with a piece of her daughter’s artwork in her backyard on March 2, 2026, in Redding. Marci’s daughter is schizophrenic with severe anosognosia and is currently being held in a nursing home in Pasadena. |
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