Nine skiers were still missing early on Wednesday after an avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, authorities said, but six others from the stranded group have been rescued. The avalanche swept the Castle Peak area of Truckee, California, about 10 miles north of Lake Tahoe, around 11:30 a.m. Pacific time...
Bicyclist Involved in Traffic Collision in Madera, Roads Closed
Officers with the Madera Police Department were investigating a traffic collision involving a bicyclist Wednesday in the area of Martin and D streets. Police said multiple streets in the area were blocked off as officers conducted their investigation. Authorities asked the public to avoid the area. The department acknowledged the...
Iranian Mourning Ceremonies Prompt New Crackdowns in Echo of 1979 Revolution
Iranians have returned to the streets this week to mourn those killed by security forces during last month's anti-government demonstrations, sparking some new crackdowns in an echo of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought down the U.S.-backed Shah. The anti-Shah revolutionaries turned Shi'ite Muslim memorial processions 40 days after each...
Kern County Fire Helicopter Crew Rescues Injured Person in Jaw Bone Canyon
A Kern County Fire Department helicopter crew completed a hoist rescue after a person was injured in a canyon in the Jaw Bone area, the Kern County Fire Department reported. Helicopter 407, working in coordination with the department’s Emergency Communications Center, responded to the incident on Friday, Feb. 13. Officials...
Trump Adviser Hassett Suggests New York Fed Researchers Be Punished for Tariffs Argument
Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to President Donald Trump, on Wednesday said those behind a New York Federal Reserve research paper that argued the costs of tariffs are borne mostly by Americans should be punished for what he described as shoddy scholarship. "The paper is an embarrassment," Hassett said...
Mikaela Shiffrin Exorcises Ghost of Olympic Past
After a couple of disappointing races, Mikaela Shiffrin was down to one event Wednesday in her bid to end her poor Olympic stretch. Luckily for her, it was her best event, the slalom, in which she has won nine World Cup titles, four world championships and an Olympic gold medal...
US Senate Committee to Hold Confirmation Hearing for Trump Surgeon General Pick Next Week
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will hold its delayed confirmation hearing for Casey Means, President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. surgeon general, next week, the committee said on Wednesday. The hearing will take place on February 25, the HELP committee said in a statement. It...
YouTube Down for More Than a Hundred Thousand Users, Downdetector Reports
YouTube experienced a widespread outage Tuesday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 390,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 5:24 p.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reported issues with the application....
Will Transportation Experts’ New ‘Flexible’ Tax Plan Fix Fresno County Roads?
A group revealed their plan to fix Fresno County roads, which could give voters two competing proposals on the November ballot if this plan and a rival measure get the necessary signatures. The Fix Our Roads Fresno County Initiative team unveiled their half-cent spending plan that, if passed, will replace...
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Says Trump Exerting Undue Pressure on Him
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said U.S. President Donald Trump was exerting undue pressure on him in trying to secure a resolution to the nearly four-year-old war pitting Kyiv against Moscow. Zelenskiy, in an interview with U.S. website Axios published on Tuesday, also said any plan requiring Ukraine to give up...