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Sean de Guzman, chief of snow surveys for the California Department of Water Resources, right, checks the depth of the snow pack as DWR's Chief of State Water Project Operations Molly White, center, records the information during the third snow survey of the season at Phillips Station near Echo Summit, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. The survey found the snowpack at 29 inches deep with a water content of 11.5 inches at this location. At left is DWR Water Resources Engineer Nathan Burley. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California to get much-needed rain, snow after dry months

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Snow returns to Reno-Sparks area and Sierra Nevada

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FILE - In this April 2, 2019, file photo, water flows down the Oroville Dam spillway in Oroville, Calif. In a rare reversal, the Trump administration has agreed to reimburse California for hundreds of millions of dollars in repair costs stemming from the 2017 emergency at Oroville Dam. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California to receive $300M from US for Oroville Dam repairs

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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2016 file photo, people try to catch fish along the Sacramento River in the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta, near Courtland, Calif. California officials sued the Trump administration on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, to block new rules governing the Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta. Attorney General Xavier Becerra called the new rules &quot;scientifically challenged&quot; and said they would push some species to extinction. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California sues Trump administration to block water rules

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

This Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, shows California Gov. Gavin Newsom during an interview in his office at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Pacific Gas & Electric's plan to emerge from bankruptcy faced another threat from Newsom during a Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, court hearing that set the stage for a potentially dramatic showdown later this month. Newsom's lawyers told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali they want to grill PG&E about the company's plans to borrow billions of dollars and sell more stock to help pay the $13.5 billion owed to more than 75,000 victims of catastrophic wildfires ignited by the utility's equipment and negligence. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Gavin Newsom, California sue Trump administration to block water rules

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Invasive plants burned at Mono Lake gull nesting grounds

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Drought returns to California due to lengthening dry winter

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2 dead in plane crash in Sierra Nevada foothills

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Sean de Guzman, chief of snow surveys for the California Department of Water Resources, checks the weight of the snowpack on a scale held by DWR's Jeremy Hill, unseen, during the second snow survey of the season at Phillips Station near Echo Summit, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. The survey found the snowpack at 40.5 inches deep with a water content of 14.5 inches. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California’s winter snowpack below average after dry January

By RICH PEDRONCELLI and JOHN ANTCZAK - Associated Press

Oakland man who robbed 19 banks sentenced to federal prison

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Water company pleads guilty to hazardous waste violations

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FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2004 file photo Mono Lake tufa towers are seen near Lee Vining, Calif. Thousands of California gulls that return each year to Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada are increasingly finding their nesting grounds crowded out by an invasive bush species. The 11,075 nests counted this year on the lake's islets were the fewest recorded over 34 years of study, the Los Angeles Times reported this week. (AP Photo/Ben Margot,File)

Invasive plant overgrowing gulls’ Mono Lake nesting grounds

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Artist tries 1,000-year time lapse photo of Lake Tahoe

By LANEY GRIFFO - Associated Press

This Nov. 20, 2019, photo shows traffic moving slowly along the Mount Rose Highway after a good dusting of snow covered the mountains near Reno, Nev. Thanksgiving travel is an ordeal under the best of circumstances, and a one-two punch of bad weather threatens to make it even more exhausting. (Andy Barron/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)

The Latest: Airports hit in stormy California

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks with reporters in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. With hundreds of thousands of Californians again in the dark amid high wildfire danger Thursday, Newsom had a message for voters: &quot;I own this.&quot; Newsom again blistered California's utilities, most notably Pacific Gas &amp; Electric, for failures to modernize electrical systems that have led to the need to shut off power to avoid wildfires. But he also went further in personalizing the crisis. &quot;It's on me to make sure this doesn't happen again.&quot; (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

California governor “owns” blackouts, takes political risk

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office shows Deputy Brian Ishmael. The Sheriff's office says Ishmael was fatally shot early Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 in the Sierra Nevada Foothills community of Somerset, Calif., and a ride-along passenger with him was injured. An office statement says two men were taken into custody but the scene about 45 miles east of Sacramento remains active. (El Dorado County Sheriff's Office via AP)

3 arrested in fatal shooting of Northern California deputy

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James Cooke is shown buying water bottles along with propane tanks and batteries at a ACE Hardware store as he prepares for a possible power shutdown in Los Gatos, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. Millions of people were poised to lose electricity throughout northern and central California after Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Co. announced Tuesday it would shut off power in the largest preventive outage in state history to try to avert wildfires caused by faulty lines. (Anda Chu/San Jose Mercury News via AP)

The Latest: PG&E cuts power in San Francisco Bay Area

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Better weather eases California power shutoffs

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2018, file photo, a Pacific Gas &amp; Electric lineman works to repair a power line in fire-ravaged Paradise, Calif. PG &amp; E anticipates shutting off power in 9 California counties due to hot, dry and windy conditions even as it formalizes settlements with the vast majority of claims from the deadly Northern California wildfires in 2017 and 2018. The San Francisco utility will make a final decision before noon Monday, Sept. 23, 2019, on whether it will cut power. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Fire threat brings power cuts to thousands in California

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In this Feb. 1, 2019, file photo, a Pacific Gas & Electric truck drives past a PG&E entrance in Daly City, Calif. Thousands of people in Northern California woke up Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, without electricity after Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to try to prevent wildfires amid windy, dry and hot conditions. PG&E cut electrical service to 24,000 customers in three counties in the Sierra Nevada foothills Monday evening, saying power will remain off until weather conditions improve. The utility said it may restore service briefly on Tuesday before it cuts it Tuesday night. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) **FILE**

PG&E cuts power to 24,000 Northern California homes for wildfire risk

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times