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2023 preview: The nation's best rides and attractions coming to a theme park near you

SANTA ANA, Calif. — It’s never too early to look ahead at what’s on tap for next year and 2023 is already shaping up as a good year for roller coaster enthusiasts, thrill ride junkies and theme park fans.

The Orange County Register

East Bay cannabis seizures cap busy regulatory year

SAN JOSE, Calif. — State cannabis control workers closed out a busy year in Alameda and Contra Costa counties by serving warrants at multiple homes in Antioch and Oakland last week, recovering plants and processed flowers, as well as cash, authorities said.

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49ers roll to eighth straight win — 37-20 over Commanders

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — If Nick Bosa wins the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year award, a fourth-quarter play on Christmas Eve is all the evidence voters need, and maybe it could sway some to consider him the league’s most valuable player.

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Enough fentanyl seized in California in 2022 to kill all of North America twice

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Law enforcement seized a staggering 28,765 pounds of fentanyl in California this year, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said Friday — enough to kill the entire population of North America twice.

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'Living here isn't easy to begin with.' How an earthquake brought people together

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — I woke Tuesday morning to a phone call from my editor before 8 a.m. — earlier than usual — with the kind of assignment you can't plan for.

Los Angeles Times

Gavin Newsom won big in November. But support across California dipped between 2018 and 2022

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated his second gubernatorial win last month, beating Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle by a never-in-doubt 18.4%. But a closer examination of the 2022 election shows that Newsom’s support has eroded since he first ran 2018.

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Ducks overcome abysmal 2nd period before losing to Flames in OT

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Despite a poorly played second period, the Ducks emerged from Honda Center with a point on Friday night, heading into the Christmas break with a 3-2 overtime loss in the second game of 10 straight at home.

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'An earthquake can drop in': More than 1 million California homes need retrofittings

Jacqui and Shane McIntosh were looking to sell their two-bedroom, single-family home in Rio Dell, Calif., so they could move closer to work. When a potential buyer scheduled a visit to their property this week, the couple hoped it might result in an offer.

Los Angeles Times

Is California’s winter COVID-19 surge sputtering?

SAN JOSE, Calif. — It’s early yet, but there are signs the dreaded holiday surge in COVID-19 cases may be losing steam, with cases and deaths at a fraction of the levels seen around the same time in 2020 and 2021.

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George Skelton: If Karen Bass succeeds as LA mayor, she could have a shot at making historic firsts as California governor

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has had 40 governors in its 172 years as a state. And not one has been a woman. Nor a Black person. Or a Los Angeles mayor.

Los Angeles Times

Karlsson has huge night as Sharks make Wild pay after dangerous hit

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The Sharks scored twice in just over five minutes after Mason Shaw was given a game misconduct for kneeing Evgeny Svechnikov, and went on to a 5-2 win over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday at SAP Center.

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From DeFremery Park to the Garden: The Oakland roots of Boston Celtics greatness

A school, a park, and a home in Oakland California helped create a hotbed for Black excellence central to the Celtics' success.

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It will be a red-tagged Christmas for those whose homes were wrecked in 6.4 quake

RIO DELL, Calif. — As aftershocks rumbled and crews worked across Humboldt County on Wednesday afternoon to restore water and power knocked out by the powerful earthquake that struck earlier this week, Kevin Mcniece rushed to his former home, hoping to beat a code enforcement team so he could grab…

Los Angeles Times

In Anaheim, taco vendors and officials play a game of a cat-and-mouse

ANAHEIM, Calif. — As Anaheim code enforcement trucks pulled up to the city storage yard with grills, portable generators and propane tanks, scouts dispatched by street vendors were on the lookout.

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30 of the biggest concert tours coming to Southern California in 2023

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Though the area witnessed some of the biggest tours, record-breaking residencies and venue reopening performances this year, 2023 is shaping up to be an even bigger year for music in Southern California stadiums, arenas and outdoor amphitheaters.

Los Angeles Times

How 'Gender Queer: A Memoir' became America's most banned book

SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Maia Kobabe grew up in an idyll. Cow fields threaded by a dirt road. No TV. Almost no internet. Nights fell over hills, stars shone bright, and Kobabe read fantasy novels, imagining other universes while searching for an identity, a glint of self to carry into…

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‘Heavy hit’ or ‘major milestone’? California’s flavored tobacco ban begins with mixed reviews

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Store owners across California on Wednesday were finally required to wipe their shelves clean of fruity, minty and candied flavored tobacco products, marking the culmination of a two-year fight by the tobacco industry to halt a statewide ban.

Sports Illustrated

Week 4: SBLive/SI Power 25 National Boys Basketball Rankings

Duncanville puts together an impressive outing in the Bahamas to jump to No. 2.

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California county sees highest number of monarch butterflies in more than 20 years

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — There's some hope fluttering around San Luis Obispo County this holiday season.

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Key figures in Scott Peterson's petition for a new trial speak out after its denial

MODESTO, Calif. — Eighteen years after a jury convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his wife and unborn son, a judge has denied the former Modesto man a new trial.

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Calif. earthquake: Power still out for thousands, boil advisories in effect

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Authorities continue to survey the damage wrought by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake early Tuesday that shook Humboldt County, California, residents off their literal foundations, with tens of thousands of people forced to spend another night in the dark as technicians work rapidly to restore power.

Los Angeles Times

Destruction, tears and tenacity in California towns battered by earthquake

RIO DELL, Calif. — Combing their homes with flashlights in the darkness, residents of the rural communities of the Eel River Valley could only sense what damage Tuesday’s earthquake had brought to their lives five days before Christmas.

The Orange County Register

California sea lions are frequently shot in violation of federal protections

SANTA ANA, Calif. — When Balboa Island resident Barbara De La Pena looked out her window and saw Newport Beach city workers prepping to bury a dead sea lion on the sand in front of her home, she stopped them.

Tribune News Service

Planning for dry times: The West considers more reservoirs and aquifers

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — As parched California receives much needed rain and snow this winter, some local water officials are calling on state leaders to invest in new infrastructure projects that will store freshwater for inevitable dry times to come.

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Homeward Bound! Dog, found 1,600 miles away, will be home for Christmas

The German shepherd mix went missing in October 2021. Now, the friendly pooch is on a cross-country road trip from Kansas to California, back to the family who adopted him as an abandoned puppy.

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