There's about a month left in the regular season of the boys basketball season in Northern California. As usual, there were some big performances from big-time players for the week of Jan. 20-26 in the seven CIF sections we scour to make up top Northern California performers.

The massive fire at one of the world's largest lithium battery storage plants in Northern California has shaken a local community worried about possible long-term impacts and brought scrutiny to the emerging industry's safety practices.

As the fire lithium battery storage facility that led to evacuations in Moss Landing last week continues to smolder days later, concerns are being raised about the impacts to the surrounding environment.

President Trump has blamed a lack of water during the Los Angeles fires on California decisions that benefit a small fish. Yet experts say he’s confusing different issues.

Everything we know about the project’s escalating costs, delays, and potential federal funding cuts under Trump.

Trump claims his order will send more water to firefighters in Southern California. Except the Central Valley Project only delivers water to farms in the center of the state.

Rocklin native Logan Webb, Heliot Ramos, Tyler Fitzgerald and Grant McCray are slated to visit West Sacramento on Feb. 1.

A Trump administration memo calls on the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Interior to develop a new plan within 90 days “to route more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of the state for use by the people there who desperately need a reliable water supply.

A freeze watch was issued by the NWS San Francisco CA on Friday at 11:07 a.m. valid from Sunday 1 a.m. until Tuesday 9 a.m. The watch is for San Francisco Bay Shoreline, Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Clara Valley Including San Jose,

Trump's order is premised on the idea that increasing Delta pumping would make more water available for the rest of California. But experts say its more complicated than that.

In July 2025, all Benioff Oakland staff will transition to University of California employment, enabling more than 2,800 Oakland employees to participate in UC’s benefits plans and take advantage of resources available to UCSF and UCSF Health employees.

Citing the Los Angeles fires, Trump directed federal agencies to "immediately take actions to override" water operations and environmental rules. But the water mostly serves Central Valley farms.