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SAN JOSE, Calif. — For decades, the Bascom family name has adorned one of San Jose’s busiest thoroughfares, a bustling light rail station and prominent buildings around the city.

About 7,500 people in the town of Weed and several nearby communities in Northern California were under evacuation orders.

MT. SHASTA, Calif. — The couple from Seattle had a taste for adventure but little alpine experience, so they hired Jillian Webster, a professional mountain guide, to help them climb Mt. Shasta — one of California’s most dramatic peaks.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In 1966, Gov. Pat Brown made a politically tone-deaf mistake with Cesar Chavez's farmworkers union. This year, Gov. Gavin Newsom repeated the goof. Brown redeemed himself. Newsom probably won't.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Niners head coach Kyle Shanahan is placing a few bets by bringing back Jimmy Garoppolo as the backup for new starting quarterback Trey Lance this season.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — If 49ers quarterback Trey Lance is shifting into crisis mode with the return of Jimmy Garoppolo, he’s hiding it well.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — A new-look Jimmy Garoppolo made his 49ers team practice debut Thursday, and it started with him in a quarterback drill he’d never experienced before, certainly not in a 49ers’ backup role.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers voted to keep the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open for five more years, ultimately siding with Gov. Gavin Newsom's controversial call to lend PG&E up to $1.4 billion and reverse plans to shutter the facility.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is on the verge of making it easier for nurse practitioners to provide abortions, barring coroner investigations following a fetal death and dedicating $20 million to expand access to reproductive care programs in Los Angeles County under bills passed by the state Legislature before the body…