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The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is dead

The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am is dead
30.01.2025 10

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'It's huge': Legendary Santa Cruz shop to close Tuesday

'It's huge': Legendary Santa Cruz shop to close Tuesday
15.01.2025 40

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Tiny burning embers flew miles, causing LA fire destruction on historic scale

10.01.2025 4

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Ayesha Curry and Michael Mina's Vegas location of SF restaurant is closing

10.01.2025 10

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Green Day singer covertly films another musician covering his biggest song

10.01.2025 5

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Wave of Walgreens stores to abruptly shutter across San Francisco

10.01.2025 30

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The future of a coastal California airport is up in the air

10.01.2025 10

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A pagan ritual helps California destination move on from the holidays

Never let it be said that Solvang, the Danish village in the heart of the Central Coast that aims both barrels of its year-round whimsy at the...

05.01.2025 10

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Beloved California teacher, 6 months pregnant, falls to her death in Greece

Clara Thomann, 33, a Santa Barbara high school physics teacher, died after a fall during a hike while vacationing during the holidays in Greece. ...

04.01.2025 4

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Plane burst into flames after skidding off runway at SKorea airport, at least 62 dead

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A jetliner skidded off a runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames Sunday in South Korea after its...

29.12.2024 10

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Woman hit and killed by a car on SF's Upper Great Highway

A 2-mile section of the Upper Great Highway will be permanently closed to private vehicles after San Francisco voters approved local Measure K in...

29.12.2024 10

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The California city that's become a grocery store lover's dream

An individual holds a basket of products at L.A. Grocery & Café in Los Angeles on June 7, 2024. California is a grocery store lover’s dream — but...

29.12.2024 3

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SF Giants miss out on yet another top free agent

Corbin Burnes, then of the Baltimore Orioles, pitches against the Detroit Tigers at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sept. 20, 2024, in Baltimore. In...

29.12.2024 10

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Hawaii visitor destination lays off entire staff, at risk of closing for good

Located in downtown Hilo in a historic art deco building, the Pacific Tsunami Museum fronts Hilo Bay, where past tsunamis devastated the town....

29.12.2024 20

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One of the prettiest parks on the West Coast is not in California

It’s no secret that California’s North Coast has some of the prettiest landscapes in the state. From the greenery-covered walls of Fern Canyon to...

29.12.2024 7

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A fabled California deli is on life support. Can it be saved?

San Luis Obispo is a sandwich town. And for decades, two spots have fought for the crown: High Street Market & Deli and Gus’s Grocery. While both...

29.12.2024 8

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Storied California market closes after 102 years in business

Brian Masatani hasn’t had a chance to take off his blue apron.  Though it was Brian and wife Tina’s decision to sell the namesake grocery store...

13.12.2024 10

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Ultra-rare Calif. species that only lives in 6 spots may be disappearing

Tulare Lake in California’s Central Valley came back to life after major rains in 2023. The San Joaquin tiger beetle is native to the alkali...

11.12.2024 3

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Controversial comedian Aziz Ansari announces Bay Area show

Aziz Ansari speaks onstage during CinemaCon at Caesars Palace on April 10, 2024, in Las Vegas.  On the heels of Dave Chappelle’s set, where he took...

11.12.2024 3

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Californians love to hate I-5 and Highway 101. But which is actually worse?

With the notable exception of “What do you want to do for dinner?” the eternal question Californians ask of one another — especially as the...

21.11.2024 3

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Monopolies are taking over California's pot economy. Lawmakers must stop them.

California’s legal market has struggled in recent years with widespread business failures.   California’s cannabis industry has grown into a...

14.11.2024 5

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Historic print shop of Berkeley's visual pioneer hits market

14.11.2024 10

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Brad Pitt movie spotted filming in Central California dunes

Off road vehicles at Pismo Beach Dunes., May 31, 2012 An upcoming blockbuster starring Brad Pitt and directed by Joseph Kosinski of “Top Gun:...

14.11.2024 10

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Calif. scientists astounded by discovery of mystery deep sea species

Discovery of a new species of sea slug known as Bathydevius caudactylus was released Monday by the Montery Bay Aquarium Research Institute. After...

14.11.2024 10

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A t-shirt worn by a legendary movie star made this Calif. university famous

In the fall of 1994, there was a buzz around the UC Santa Cruz campus. Something was about to go down, something big. Not many details were known...

05.10.2024 4

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'I'm going broke': Calif. town on edge after Highway 1 announcement

As the marine layer dissipated into the nearby hillside, it revealed the oceanfront stopover of San Simeon to be, yet again, essentially empty. ...

30.09.2024 4

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Celebration, trepidation mix during the reopening of historic Calif. wharf

It was easy to tell that the locals were in a celebratory mood Wednesday afternoon in Capitola, the cherished oceanfront enclave next door to Santa...

27.09.2024 10

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Notorious developer buys California icon

After months of uncertainty following its sudden closure, Pea Soup Andersen’s, the legendary Central Coast destination in Buellton just off Highway...

18.09.2024 3

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'A scam': How a Calif. Mediterranean cafe dealt with a visit from Guy Fieri

If Guy Fieri likes you and your food enough, he’ll apparently reward you on the spot with his own personal nickname. Such was the case for San Luis...

14.09.2024 4

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Wealthy oceanfront town's residents lash out at prospect of addresses

After deciding on one course, residents of Carmel have once again reached a boiling point over street addresses, and the City Council has...

12.09.2024 4

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This historic Calif. theater was the first draft of the Alamo Drafthouse

When Sony acquired Alamo Drafthouse in June, conspicuously absent from the announcement was any mention of the Texas-based dine-in movie theater...

08.09.2024 4

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Big Sur faces 'uncharted territory' with continued Highway 1 closures

The summer that was for Big Sur: Traffic congestion returned to “America’s most beautiful cul-de-sac” but the volume of visitors and the influx of...

08.09.2024 20

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Why Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce dined next to the restroom in Carmel

Forming a parasocial relationship with the world’s biggest pop star and her tight end boyfriend is one thing. Making a special trip to Carmel to...

30.08.2024 5

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This Lake Tahoe original beat In-N-Out's Double-Double by a decade

You probably know everything there is to know about In-N-Out’s Double-Double. Often credited as the first (or at least the best) to do double meat...

29.08.2024 10

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The 84-year-old baker keeping a California institution going

In the 1950s, the Bakersfield Californian ran a regular column titled “Shop Talk by Dorothy Ann.” In scenes seemingly torn straight from a...

27.08.2024 10

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