Environment Flash Floods Hit Communities Devastated By Camp Fire "The roots and the bottoms of the utility poles are just kind of swimming," Cal Fire spokesman Rick Carhart said on Thursday. Rescue teams worked to save motorists stranded on flooded roads. Vanessa Romo
National 'What took a lifetime to accumulate ... was incinerated in minutes' For those who have survived the deadly fires in Northern and Southern California, the escape was just the beginning. Now they face the daunting task of rebuilding the lives they made. Colin Dwyer
National After The Fire, The Town Of Paradise Lies In An Ashy Quiet Mayor Jody Jones estimates 90 percent of the residential structures were destroyed in California's Camp Fire. Crews search for those who may have perished in neighborhoods now marked by silence. Laurel Wamsley
National Wildfires Wreak Havoc On California, Including A Thousand Oaks Still In Mourning While the small community coped with a mass shooting Thursday, two dangerous blazes began nearby. Now firefighters are scrambling to contain them — as yet another fire rages hundreds of miles north. Colin Dwyer
National 4 White Supremacists Face Federal Charges In California Attacks Members of a far-right group were charged for violently attacking counterprotesters, journalists and one police officer at political rallies across the state. Emily Sullivan
Politics California Becomes 1st State To Require Women On Corporate Boards A quarter of the 445 publicly traded companies in California don't have any women on their boards. Opponents say the law is unconstitutional and confusing for companies incorporated in other states. Laurel Wamsley
Science California Sets Goal Of 100 Percent Renewable Electric Power By 2045 Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill mandating that ambitious goal on Monday. He also issued an executive order calling for statewide carbon neutrality by the same year. Camila Domonoske
From L.A. to Everett: How illegal OxyContin helped spark an opioid epidemic Emily Fox talks with Los Angeles Times reporter Harriet Ryan about how an illegal OxyContin ring in Southern California helped spark an opioid epidemic... Emily Fox Andy Hurst
Walter Mosley On Being Black: 'You Don't Ever Completely Belong' People usually remember as far back as the generation that raises them, says writer Walter Mosley. Mosley had come into KUOW’s studios to speak with... Ross Reynolds
