Northern California

The Russian River reached 45.31 feet Wednesday night in the Northern California town of Guerneville, leaving 4,500 residents isolated. The River reached its highest level since the late 1990s and is expected to fall back below flood stage over the next few days. For more information, click here.

Image from United States Geographical Survey (USGS) National Earthquake Information Center James Queally reported in the Los Angeles Times: Recently there has been a multitude of low-impact earthquakes striking the Bay Area. Early Monday morning, Diablo experienced a 2.9 magnitude earthquake…

As reported by Richard Pérez-Peña and Thomas Fuller in the New York Times, terror struck in Rancho Tehama area of Northern California as gunman went on a shooting rampage at an elementary school and around the community on Tuesday. Four were killed, and ten or more were wounded in the attack…

 A firefighter carries a bundle of radios Friday morning at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in California. (Stuart Palley/For The Washington Post) Lake County, the sole California county to effectively send out emergency cellular alerts to its residents, had zero fatalities from wildfire. While…

Media Pictured: Northern California is being hit by ferocious wildfires, leading to more than a dozen deaths and some 20,000 evacuees. By Robin Lindsay and Sarah Stein Kerr on Publish Date October 9, 2017. Photo by Jim Wilson/The New York Times. For Full video, visit Times Video on The New York…