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Santa Cruz County reinstates indoor mask mandate as Newsom …

A sign reminding customers that face masks are required is seen in this undated file photo. (Getty Images)

Ventura among 6 more California counties urging indoor …

Lilian Zhu, 17, works on her laptop while wearing a face mask inside Charlie’s Coffee House in South Pasadena on Sunday.(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Great white shark population on the rise in Monterey Bay, …

A Great White Shark is seen in this file photo. (Getty Images)

Atmospheric river brings heavy rain and snow to NorCal, …

A car passes an evacuation warning in the Boulder Creek community, which burned during last summer's CZU Lightning Complex Fire, in Santa Cruz County, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. Residents of the Santa Cruz Mountains are under evacuation warnings as heavy rains threaten to cause mudslides in areas scorched during last summer's wildfires. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Atmospheric river barrels toward California, threatening …

Clouds move over palm trees at Elysian Park in Los Angeles, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Judge dismisses 24 cities’ lawsuit challenging cannabis …

Some cities that banned cannabis dispensaries went to court to prevent deliveries of the drug to their residents. Above, Ñ Cheryl Luell of the Healing Center in Needles, Calif. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)

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Stolen Bigfoot statue found along road in Santa Cruz …

A Bigfoot state found on the side of a road on Nov. 12, 2020 and the Bigfoot Discovery Museum are seen in photos released by the Scotts Valley Police Department and Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office.

California wildfires: Neighbors with hoses target …

Civilian volunteers fight the CZU Lightning Complex Fire in Bonny Doon, California, on Aug. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Lawmakers want to extend California utility customer …

Firefighters work to contain a blaze during the CZU August Lightning Complex Fires on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020 in Ben Lomond, CA. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)

California’s wildfires scorch more land than 5 times …

In this long exposure photograph, flames set ablaze both sides of a segment of Lake Berryessa during the Hennessey fire in the Spanish Flat area of Napa on Aug. 18, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Worry grows as looters target wildfire evacuees in …

A bicycle and palm tree burn at a residence during the LNU Lightning Complex fire in the Spanish Flat area of Napa, California on Aug. 18, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

‘It’s sickening’: Firefighter battling NorCal fire …

A forest burns as the CZU August Lightning Complex Fire advances, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, in Bonny Doon, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

3 massive wildfires tear through Northern California …

A burned out vehicle is left in front of a fire- ravaged residence as smoke from the CZU August Lightning Complex Fire fills the sky Aug. 22, 2020, in Boulder Creek, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)