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California has a long history of lightning-caused fires, but 2020 is showing how a changing climate can affect the growth of such blazes. Jane Presswood, the owner of the liquor store, said she was closing down early Tuesday and expected to remain closed until Friday. She and her husband were heading to a hotel in Santa Cruz to ride out the storm, she said. Some of her neighbors however are staying put, including John Moxon, who was chatting with Pressman at the store while buying himself a lottery ticket. Advertisement “Hope I don’t become a statistic,” he said, with a rueful laugh. ...

California winter storms: Powerful winter storms trigger evacuation orders and knock out power in parts of California CNN 1/27/2021 By Pedram Javaheri and Christina Maxouris, CNN © Noah Berger/AP Charles Bogray evacuates from his Boulder Creek home near the CZU Lightning Complex Fire burn zone in Santa Cruz County, on Tuesday, January 26. A series of powerful winter storms are barreling across the parched state of California, knocking out power to more than 400,000, threatening mud slides and triggering evacuation orders. Evacuation orders are in place in parts of San Ma...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. California appears to have pushed through the worst of its calamitous winter surge, with coronavirus case counts and hospitalization numbers now on the decline. However, while it’s clear that Californians have managed to bend the curve, we are far from in the clear. The pandemic has also brutally battered the state economy, with the unemployment rate spiking in December. Much of that job loss was concentrated in the leisure and hospitality sector, which has been hit particularly hard by...

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the theory that the Constitution prohibits a trial of a former official is “flat-out wrong by every frame of analysis.” He pointed out that the Constitution allows the Senate to not only remove an impeached official from office, but also bar him or her from holding future office. Though many GOP lawmakers have condemned Trump’s actions in inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the party has coalesced around the idea that impeaching a former president would be improper. Moreover, there is political calculus involved. Trump...

Heavy rain headed to Southern California with mudslides possible in burn areas An empty stretch of Interstate 5 through Gorman on Wednesday as a series of winter storms rolls through California. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Jan. 27, 2021 Updated 5:47 PM PT A winter storm barreling toward Southern California threatens heavy rainfall that could trigger mudslides and debris flows in vulnerable areas. In anticipation of the rainfall, the National Weather Service issued a flash-flood watch in the areas burned in the Bobcat, Lake and Ranch2 wildfires last year...