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Aaron Rodgers donates half a million to help Butte County small businesses Green Bay Packers star quarterback and Chico native, Aaron Rodgers, announced Wednesday a $500,000 donation through the NVCF to help locally owned small businesses in Butte County. Posted: Feb 3, 2021 4:44 PM Updated: Feb 3, 2021 7:37 PM Posted By: Deb Anderaos BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. – Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers star quarterback and a Chico native, is teaming up again with the North Valley Community Foundati...

Costly thunderstorms, hurricanes, wildfires, and devastating monsoon rains besieged the planet last year. National Guard troops respond in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Laura was Earth’s most expensive tropical cyclone of 2020, with $18.2 billion in damage. (Photo credit: Josiah Pugh) Earth was besieged by a record 50 billion-dollar weather disasters in 2020, the most such disasters ever recorded after adjusting for inflation, said insurance broker Aon (formerly...

Here are 21 new laws for Californians in 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Saqr Abdulla helps Michelle Kelly purchase tobacco products at Evergreen Smoke Shop in Oakland. A law that would have taken effect on Jan. 1, a ban on flavored tobacco products, is on hold, pending a possible ballot measure.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Malcolm Thompson smokes one of the Newports he purchased at Evergreen Smoke Shop in Oakland. A law that would have taken effect on Jan. 1, a b...

2020 In Review Fast Facts CNN 12/31/2020 CNN Editorial Research © Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images New Years Eve fireworks erupt over Sydneys iconic Harbour Bridge and Opera House (L) during the fireworks show on January 1, 2020. Here is a look back at the events of 2020. Notable US Events January 2 -In the face of warnings from the Pentagon that a hold on military aid to Ukraine could be illegal, an official from the Office of Management and Budget makes it clear that the orde...

Gavin Newsom gives an update on Californias Covid response. | Rich Pedroncelli, Pool/AP Newsom recall effort gets $500K boost from Orange County firm Updated OAKLAND, Calif. — A campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom has received its first six-figure infusion, underscoring the effort’s potential. Irvine-based consulting firm Prov 3:9, LLC contributed $500,000 to one of the committees seeking to put a recall election before California voters. The effort also received roughly $100,000 from Seq...

originalpunkt/Shutterstock Kristy Dahl, senior climate scientist | December 18, 2020, 6:57 pm EDT Updated 1/4/2021 at 2:28 pm to clarify language in paragraph 16. In early January of this year, fresh off the experience of writing a year-end blog post for 2019, I started a project that I thought would make writing this year’s year-end post easier. I created a little 2020 calendar on which I planned to record the one big thing th...

Longreads Best of 2020: Essays All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad. All through December, we’re featuring Longreads’ Best of 2020. This year, our editors picked and featured hundreds of beautifully written and poignant essays published on the web. Because of the wide range of writing across many topics and themes, it was a challenge to sift through them all over the past several weeks to compile a definitive Best of Essays list. As I shortlisted stories, I realized there ...

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, December 15, 2020 — American Humane , the country’s first national humane organization and the world’s largest certifier of animal welfare practices, today announced PetSmart Charities awarded them a $15,000 grant in support of critical disaster relief efforts in Northern California. The American Humane Rescue team deployed to assist with shelter operations and provide care for more than 200 animal victims of the California wildfires that ravaged more tha...

The year 2020 is virtually certain to rank among the five-warmest years on record. Students in Legazpi City, Philippines declare a climate emergency amid damage left by Super Typhoon Goni on November 8, 2020. Goni made landfall 30 miles northeast of Legazpi on November 1 with 195 mph winds, making it the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone ever recorded. (Photo credit: Bicol University Science Alliance) November 2020 was the second warmest November since global record keeping began in 1880, ...