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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A once-in-a-generation political battle is heating up in California as candidates begin to spar over Dianne Feinstein’s coveted Senate seat, promising reverberations that will shake up everything from representation in the U.S. House to local Bay Area elections.

The parade of atmospheric rivers that pounded California for three weeks finally faded on Monday, enabling the state to begin lengthy repairs to roads and levees as the White House announced President Joe Biden planned to survey the damage. The nine consecutive rainstorms that inundated California in succession since Dec.…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal help for those affected by a series of severe storms in California has been approved by the White House.

More rain and snow fell during the weekend in storm-battered California, making travel dangerous and prompting new evacuation orders over flooding concerns along a swollen river near Sacramento

At least 19 people are known to have died from storm-related causes in the last three weeks.

After a brief respite, a new round of heavy rains and wind gusts are lashing the state, forcing evacuations and knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes.

Further flood warnings and evacuations are issued in California with the state being dumped with rain and snow since late December, cutting power to thousands, swamping roads, and triggering landslides.

Storm-battered California is getting more wind, rain and snow, raising flooding concerns, causing power outages and making travel dangerous

An independent review into the conviction of death row inmate Kevin Cooper found that evidence of his guilt was “extensive and conclusive” in the 1983 stabbing deaths of four people, including two children, at a suburban Los Angeles home