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Craig Ledbetter of Vino Farms looks at locally made wines at the Lodi Wine Visitor Center in Lodi, Calif. on March 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
California’s wine industry leery of tariffs, but some growers hope they help
Escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and Europe are being closely watched in California’s already struggling iconic wine industry. Many fear tariffs will hike the cost of wine-making materials and dampen U.S. importers of European wines.
 
Angelita Delgado sorts through almonds by hand at Stewart and Jasper Orchards, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Newman, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
California almond growers grapple with uncertainty as new tariffs could hit exports
California’s almond growers are used to dealing with the swings of volatile weather and water supply.
 
Kendra Dahmer, a postdoctoral researcher studying infectious disease, works in a laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, in Berkeley, Calif., Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
Trump’s DEI order leaves academic researchers fearful of political influence over grants
President Donald Trump’s order declaring diversity, equity and inclusion policies illegal has thrown into doubt the future of research Kendra Dahmer has been doing on intestinal parasites in India and Benin.
 
A glass of eggnog, which is prepared 11 months in advance, is shown at Scoma's Restaurant in San Francisco on Tuesday, Dec.10, 2024. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
It’s eggnog season. The boozy beverage dates back to medieval England but remains a holiday hit
It’s eggnog season. At Scoma’s Restaurant in San Francisco, this holiday’s batch of eggnog began 11 months ago.
 
An SFMTA worker installs the Joe Rosenthal Way street sign to honor Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during WWII, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Minh Connors)
San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo
A block in downtown San Francisco has been renamed for acclaimed photojournalist Joe Rosenthal, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his iconic photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during WWII.
 
Sheriff's deputies walks past a playground outside Feather River Adventist School after a shooting Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Oroville, Calif. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
Gunman who shot 2 kindergartners at a California school wrote about attack targeting children
A gunman who critically wounded two kindergartners at a tiny religious school in Northern California was mentally ill and believed by targeting children he was carrying out “counter-measures” in response to America’s involvement in Middle East violence.
 
CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME Cabrel Ngounou, center, a refugee from Cameroon, talks with his sponsors Lori Ostlund, left, and Anne Raeff in their home in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
US ‘Welcome Corps’ helps resettle LGBTQ+ refugees fleeing crackdowns against gay people
A program that helps refugees resettle in the United States has expanded to include LGBTQ+ people who have been threatened and harassed in their home countries.
 
Chocolate callets are displayed at the California Cultured office in West Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Companies are crafting new ways to grow cocoa, and chocolate alternatives, to keep up with demand
From California to Israel, companies are aiming to grow cocoa beyond the tropics in a bid to buffer chocolate’s key ingredient from climate change.
 
Homes are seen in Carmel-By-The-Sea, Calif., Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Where do you live? That’s a complicated question for a California town with no street addresses
Carmel-by-the-Sea is known for its white-sand beaches, storybook buildings and famous former mayor, Clint Eastwood. A lesser-known quirk of the wealthy seaside community in California is its lack of street addresses.
 
The MV Sea Change, the first commercial passenger ferry powered by hydrogen fuel cells, is seen on the water, Friday, July 12, 2024, in San Francisco. The MV Sea Change will begin offering free rides to the public along the San Francisco waterfront on Friday, July 19. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
World’s first hydrogen-powered commercial ferry to run on San Francisco Bay, and it’s free to ride
The first hydrogen-powered ferry to operate commercially anywhere in the world is set to begin transporting passengers on San Francisco Bay. The new service is aimed at showcasing emission-free technology.
 
Cows stand in a corral at a Pixley, Calif., dairy farm on Monday, May 20, 2024. In recent decades, digesters that convert cow manure and other organic waste into biogas to create electricity or to fuel vehicles have spread nationally, and the number is expected to grow. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Converting cow manure to fuel is growing climate solution, but critics say communities put at risk
California has become a leader in curbing methane emissions from dairy farms, a major source of the greenhouse gas.
 
Students walk by graffiti near university president Richard Saller's office at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Stanford University said 13 people were arrested as law enforcement removed pro-Palestinian demonstrators who occupied a campus building early Wednesday that houses the university president and provost offices, with the school saying there was extensive damage inside and outside the building and an officer was lightly injured. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested at Stanford University after occupying president’s office
 
Researchers climb General Sherman, the world's largest tree, in Sequoia National Park, Calif. on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. They inspected the 275-foot tree for evidence of bark beetles, an emerging threat to giant sequoias. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
General Sherman passes health check but world’s largest trees face growing climate threats
Researchers climbed the world’s largest tree to inspect for bark beetles and descended the giant sequoia with good news this week. Anthony Ambrose of the Ancient Forest Society led the team up the 275-foot tree called General Sherman.
 
A newly adopted dog is held at Oakland Animal Services on Thursday, April 4, 2024, in Oakland, Calif. The city animal shelter has seen a surge in pets surrendered by tenants who can't find rentals that allow pets. A bill in California wants to make more rental housing available to tenants with pets. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
Finding an apartment may be easier for California pet owners under new legislation
A bill in California wants to make more rental housing available to tenants with pets. Assembly Bill 2216 would ban blanket no-pets policies and prohibit landlords from charging extra for security deposit and rent for tenants who have cats, dogs or other common household animals.
 
An employee collects payment at an Auntie Anne's and Cinnabon store in Livermore, Calif., Thursday, March 28, 2024. He's among hundreds of thousands of California fast-food workers who will be paid at least $20 an hour starting Monday, April 1. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
New $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in California set to start Monday
Most of California’s fast food workers are set to be paid at least $20 per hour. A new law mandating the minimum wage increase for fast food workers is scheduled to take effect on Monday.
 
A corpse flower in bloom is shown at the California Academy of Sciences' Osher Rainforest in San Francisco, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Visitors line up to see and smell a corpse flower’s stinking bloom in San Francisco
Crowds have lined up in San Francisco to see and smell the rare blooming an endangered tropical flower that releases a pungent odor when it opens once every several years.
 
A worker moves crates of eggs at the Sunrise Farms processing plant in Petaluma, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, which has seen an outbreak of avian flu in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
Avian flu is devastating farms in California’s ‘Egg Basket’ as outbreaks roil poultry industry
A year after the bird flu led to record egg prices and widespread shortages, the disease known as highly pathogenic avian influenza is wreaking havoc on California poultry farms.
 
Shipping containers are placed around People's Park in Berkeley, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. Police officers in riot gear removed activists and crews began placing double-stacked shipping containers to wall off the historic park as the University of California, Berkeley waits for a court ruling it hopes will allow it to build much-needed student housing. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
UC Berkeley walls off People’s Park as it waits for court decision on student housing project
Police officers in riot gear have removed activists from Berkeley’s People’s Park and crews began placing double-stacked shipping containers to wall off the historic park overnight Thursday.
 
A driverless shuttle stops for a passenger on San Francisco's Treasure Island as part of a pilot program to assess the safety and effectiveness of autonomous vehicles for public transit on Aug. 16, 2023. The free bus service was launched less than a week after California regulators approved the controversial expansion of robotaxis on city streets. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
San Francisco launches driverless bus service following robotaxi expansion
San Francisco has launched an autonomous shuttle service less than a week after regulators approved the expansion of robotaxis despite traffic and safety concerns.
 
Andy Fang, DoorDash’s co-founder and chief technology officer, picks up and delivers food orders to customers in downtown San Francisco on Saturday, June 15, 2023. Fang is one of a growing number of executives who work shifts on the front lines of the companies they run. All DoorDash salaried employees are required to make deliveries or work directly with customers or merchants several times a year. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
Your DoorDash driver? He’s the company’s co-founder
When DoorDash began, its three co-founders did all the deliveries themselves. A decade later, they’re still at it.
 
U.S. Forest Service crew members put tree branches into a wood chipper as they prepare the area for a prescribed burn in the Tahoe National Forest, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, near Downieville, Calif. The Biden administration is trying to turn the tide on worsening wildfires in the U.S. West through a multi-billion dollar cleanup of forests choked with dead trees and undergrowth. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Billions are being spent to turn the tide on the US West’s wildfires. It won’t be enough
Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and controlled burns, the Biden administration is trying to turn the tide on worsening wildfires in the U.S. West through a multi-billion dollar cleanup of forests choked with dead trees and undergrowth.