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Hope of the Valley’s NoHo Shelter, an 85-bed Bridge Housing shelter inside a North Hollywood warehouse, seen on Monday, July 6, 2020, is set to open this week, (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Men from Hope of the Valley’s recovery home hang sponsors signs on Monday, July 6, 2020 in the community…

RIO LINDA (CBS13) — Firefighters responded to a large grass fire in Rio Linda near Kasser Road Monday night. The fire was burning near Kasser Road and Tan Wood Road and spread to Baseline Road, Metro Fire said. ~40 acres and bumping against Baseline Rd. Assistance from @CALFIRENEU, @SacFirePIO, and @RSVL_Fire pic.twitter.com/H4iyBAY05d — Metro Fire…

by Alex Zielinski A PPB officer facing a crowd the evening of July 4, 2020. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland The president of the Portland Police Association (PPA), Portland’s union representing rank-and-file officers, is condemning local officials for defending the rights of protesters who participate in Portland’s nightly demonstrations. “These rioters come out nightly armed with weapons and…

by Blair Stenvick Mike Schmidt campaign photo Mike Schmidt, Multnomah County’s district attorney-elect, will take over the role beginning August 1. In May, Multnomah County voters elected Mike Schmidt to serve as the county’s next district attorney. Schmidt was expected to start in January, when current District Attorney Rod Underhill’s term expired. But last month,…

The grandchildren of Brea educator William E. Fanning knew him as a compassionate man who never missed an opportunity to nurture young minds. Among other lessons, the amateur apiarist would invite neighborhood kids to observe – from the safety of his screened porch – a demonstration in beekeeping. But almost four decades after his death,…

The reported outbreak of bubonic plague in Mongolia and China is not considered to pose a high risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said, adding that it is closely monitoring the situation. The disease, notorious for devastating large parts of Europe, the Middle East and Asia throughout history, has been recently detected in Mongolia…

US video conferencing platform Zoom has joined Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Telegram in suspending data requests from Hong Kong authorities following the enactment of the new national security law. Like its tech industry contemporaries, a Zoom spokesperson said the company “supports the free and open exchange of thoughts and ideas,” but it would not cooperate…

Advocacy work by the recently formed National Independent Venue Association is looking to remedy some of the problems faced by independent venue operators by asking leadership in Washington D.C. approve federal aid.         Press Release Distribution Service

Twenty-one people were arrested during a protest near Mount Rushmore connected to President Donald Trump’s visit on Friday.         Press Release Distribution Service

Here’s a closer look at some of the incidents in Sioux Falls from the Fourth of July weekend.         Press Release Distribution Service

Hashi Price is a certified nursing assistant at the Providence Transitional Care Center, the site of Alaska’s largest coronavirus outbreak. Price has worked for Providence for 10 years. Photographed outside of her workplace on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (Tegan Hanlon/Alaska Public Media) Stories are posted on the statewide news page. You can subscribe to Alaska Public Media’s newsfeeds…

A Ravn plane sits on the tarmac at Anchorage’s airport. (RavnAir Group) Alaska’s largest rural air service is going on the auction block Tuesday. RavnAir Group once flew to more than a hundred destinations around the state before the COVID-19 pandemic forced it into bankruptcy earlier this year. Now it owes nearly $100 million to…

Kennicott at Hubbard Glacier. (Photo by Geraldine Young, Alaska DOT&PF) A passenger traveling on the Kennicott ferry tested positive for COVID-19 after disembarking in Cordova. The Alaska Marine Highway System says the traveler initially tested negative before boarding the ferry in Bellingham, Wash., on June 27. The passenger only had close contact with one person…