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NorCal Sea Lion Gets Plastic Surgery For Gunshot Wounds
VALLEJO (AP) – A California sea lion that was shot in the face underwent plastic surgery to fix his damaged muzzle Friday. Veterinarians and a plastic surgeon operated on the 650-pound animal known as...
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California Salmon Season To Run Normal Length
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — For the first time in four years California’s recreational Chinook salmon fishermen are gearing up for what is expected to be a normal-length season. California Department of Fish...
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Opening Day Of Norcal Salmon Season Cloudy But Bountiful
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)- Saturday marks the opening day for recreational salmon season on California’s North Coast, but the weather may keep many from throwing in a line to an increased fish population....
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Lafayette Man Disappears During Labor Day Float On Sacramento River
CHICO (KCBS) – Search and rescue teams have been combing the brushy areas along the Sacramento River near Chico for a Lafayette man who disappeared during a Labor Day float down the river. Brett Olson,...
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Woman Missing After Driving Car Into Sacramento River
WEST SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Sacramento Drowning and Accident Rescue Team and firefighters were searching Wednesday for a woman who drove her car into the Sacramento River in West Sacramento. The woman...
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$14 Billion Delta Plan To Help Fish Survival, Water Officials Say
FRESNO (CBS / AP) — California water officials said on Wednesday that a $14 billion twin-tunnel plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta would restore the ecosystem and reduce mortality of threatened...
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State Water Officials Propose Major Changes To Delta Conservation Plan
SACRAMENTO (KCBS / AP) – California water officials are proposing changes to a multibillion dollar plan involving two water diversion tunnels for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The changes were...
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Proposed Delta Water Tunnels Reignite Battle Over Water Rights
WALNUT GROVE (KPIX 5) — Hemly Farms has been growing pears and apples in the delta for six generations, going back to the Gold Rush days. They are one of dozens of family-owned farms that harvest...
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Fish Become Focus In War Over Future Of Delta Water
BAKERSFIELD (KPIX 5) – A sportfish has become a target in the war over water rights in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. The debate over the striped bass is coming to light amid a controversial...
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Salmon May Migrate On The Freeway Rather Than Shallow Sacramento River
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — Millions of young California salmon may end up bypassing their migration down the Sacramento River to the ocean and instead take a road trip because of the drought. State and...
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Court Upholds California Water Restrictions To Protect Delta Smelt
FRESNO (CBS / AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday largely upheld a 2008 plan that called for restrictions on water deliveries from California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect a tiny,...
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East Bay Water District Taps Emergency Pipe, Filling San Pablo, Upper San...
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_3004201418272037970AA.mp4 CONTRA COSTA COUNTY (CBS SF) — The mighty Mokelumne River is not so mighty after three years of the worst drought in California...
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Drought: All This Rain Is Confusing NorCal Salmon — They Keep Getting Lost
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_0312201418422332189AA.mp4 SACRAMENTO (KPIX 5 ) — With all the rain we’ve been having, one would think it would be good thing for the imperiled salmon...
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Rivers To Rise Up To 32 Feet By Friday, Some Hitting Flood Stage Thursday...
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_1012201418284955797AA.mp4 SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — At least four local rivers including the Napa, Russian, Navarro and Sacramento Rivers are forecast to peak...
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66-Inch Sturgeon Revived By Wildlife Officers, Returned To Sacramento River;...
YOLO COUNTY (KCBS)— California wildlife officers successfully resuscitated a 66-inch sturgeon and cited a man on poaching charges last week, before returning the fish to the Sacramento River. The...
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Stretch Of Sacramento River Closed To Fishing After Drought Conditions...
REDDING (CBS/AP) — More than five miles of critical spawning habitat on the upper Sacramento River has closed to salmon fishing. An emergency regulation closing 5.5 miles above the city of Redding went...
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Bad Tasting, Smelly Tap Water Returns To East Bay MUD Customers This Weekend
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_0805201518152938568AA.mp4 SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) says beginning this weekend, a drought-related shift in...
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Environmentalists Concerned Drought Causing Salty Bay Water To Invade Delta,...
STOCKTON (CBS/AP) — State officials say they are struggling to keep portions of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta fresh as saltier water from the San Francisco Bay pushes inland during another...
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Drought May Be Responsible For Rise In Sacramento, American River Deaths
SACRAMENTO (CBS/AP) — More people are drowning in two of Sacramento’s rivers, and the drought may be partially responsible. The Sacramento Bee reports there have been six drownings on the Sacramento...
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Drought: CA Regulators Back Off Plan To Withhold Farm Water To Help Salmon
SACRAMENTO(CBS/AP) — State drought regulators have backed off a plan to withhold water from farms and cities in favor of an endangered species of salmon, instead choosing a more flexible approach. The...
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Sacramento Firefighters Rescue Cats From Flood Waters
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) – For cats, hell is high water. And that hell became reality for two California felines on Tuesday, when high flood waters left them stranded in trees half-submerged in the...
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Millions Of Chinook Salmon Released Into Northern California Waterways
ANDERSON (CBS SF) — For the first time in years there’s enough water in Northern California rivers to safely release salmon, and it’s all thanks to El Nino. Some of the salmon will be tracked as they...
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Officials Pump Millions Of Salmon Fingerlings Into Sacramento River
ANDERSON, Shasta County (KPIX 5) — For the first time in two years, the federal government is using a special quarter-mile-long pipe to release millions of baby Chinook salmon from a hatchery directly...
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Sacramento-Area Mom Found Guilty Of Murdering 20-Day-Old Son
The mother of an infant found dead near the Sacramento River has been convicted of murder in the death of her son.
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Bay Point Woman’s Body Remains In Submerged Vehicle After Crash In Isleton
ISLETON (CBS SF) — The body of a Bay Point woman whose car was found in the Sacramento River in Isleton Sunday night remains underneath the water and won’t be removed until at least Thursday, a...
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East Bay Mother’s Body Remains Submerged In The Sacramento River
ISLETON (KPIX 5) — An East Bay mother was killed in a car crash and days later, officials still can’t get to her body. Now her family is outraged. The California Highway Patrol says the incident...
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Bay Point Woman’s Body And Car Recovered After A Week Submerged In Sacramento...
ISLETON (CBS SF) — A woman’s body was recovered from a vehicle that was submerged in the Sacramento River in Isleton almost a week after she lost control of the car and drove into the river, according...
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Father Drowns Trying To Save Son In Delta
PITTSBURG (CBS SF) — The search for the body of a Fairfield father who was believed to have drowned trying to save his son will begin anew Monday morning in the waters off of the Pittsburg Marina. The...
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Coast Guard Ends Search For Man Who Jumped From Boat To Retrieve Hat
ANTIOCH (CBS SF) — The search has been called off for a man who disappeared after jumping off a boat near the Antioch Bridge Saturday, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard. The 53-year-old...
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Environmentalists File Lawsuit Over California’s Delta Tunnels Project
SACRAMENTO (KPIX 5) – Environmentalists have filed a lawsuit after the federal government said last week that Northern California’s delta tunnels project would not harm endangered fish in the delta and...
View ArticleGov. Brown Proposes Pared-Down Delta Water Tunnel Project
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration is proposing scaling back his troubled plans to redo California’s water system, releasing a new plan that would build only one tunnel to ship...
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Rio Vista Bridge Raised for Ships, Closed to Cars Until Monday
RIO VISTA (CBS SF) — The Rio Vista Bridge, which connects Solano and Sacramento counties on Highway 12, is closed until 3 a.m. Monday to allow for ship traffic to pass beneath the drawbridge. Motorists...
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Fishermen Pull 2 Live Pipe Bombs From Sacramento River in Tehama County
RED BLUFF (AP) — In more than 15 years as a fishing guide, John Kenyon has hooked plenty of fish and many other items, including anchors and lawn chairs. But what he pulled from the Sacramento River in...
View ArticleDrought Emergency: EBMUD To Draw 11 Billion Gallons From Sacramento River To...
OAKLAND (CBS SF/KPIX) – Amid the ongoing drought, officials with the East Bay Municipal Utility District announced it would draw supplemental water from the Sacramento River for the next several...
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