Kathleen Ronayne, The Associated Press

Kathleen Ronayne

The Associated Press

Sacramento, CA, United States

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Past articles by Kathleen:

Some California mountain residents could be snowed in a week

Some residents stranded in Southern California mountain communities by a huge snowfall could be stuck for another week → Read More

Pipeline debate at center of California carbon capture plans

Twenty years into climate change efforts, California is now relying heavily on a controversial technology — capturing climate pollution from industry and piping it underground, where it's supposed to remain permanently → Read More

California releases its own plan for Colorado River cuts

California has released a plan outlining how it thinks states should reduce their reliance on the Colorado River → Read More

AP Exclusive: Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talks

Competing priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline all combined to thwart a voluntary deal last summer on how to drastically cut water use from the parched Colorado River → Read More

AP Exclusive: Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talks

Competing priorities, outsized demands and the federal government's retreat from a threatened deadline all combined to thwart a voluntary deal last summer on how to drastically cut water use from the parched Colorado River → Read More

California lowers incentives for rooftop solar panels

California utility regulators have approved major changes to the state's booming rooftop solar industry → Read More

Drying California lake to get $250M in US drought funding

The federal government says it will spend $250 million over four years on environmental cleanup and restoration work around a drying Southern California lake that's fed by the depleted Colorado River → Read More

Western US cities to remove decorative grass amid drought

Thirty water agencies that supply cities across the western United States are pledging to rip up lots of decorative grass to conserve water in the over-tapped Colorado River → Read More

EXPLAINER: Why California has so many votes left to count

California's seemingly drawn-out process of counting votes means the balance of power in the U.S. House is still in limbo → Read More

California seeks to pair home energy storage, rooftop solar

California regulators have proposed changes to the state's robust residential solar market aimed at encouraging more at-home battery systems that store power for use at night → Read More

Hoopa Valley Tribe sues US over California water contracts

The Hoopa Valley Tribe alleges in a lawsuit that the Biden administration is failing to collect money from farms that rely on federally supplied water to pay for damages to tribal fisheries → Read More

Arizona's Kelly hits California on Colorado River use

Communities around California's shrinking Salton Sea are at the center of the latest spat between Arizona and California over how to conserve Colorado River water → Read More

California carbon emissions fell 9% in pandemic's 1st year

California's planet-warming emissions dropped by nearly 9% in 2020 compared to the year before → Read More

Amid end to COVID help, homelessness surging in many cities

Homelessness is expected to be up when the federal government releases results from an annual count in coming months, the first full tally since the coronavirus pandemic began → Read More

California agencies float Colorado River savings in drought

California water agencies that rely on the parched Colorado River say they're willing to cut their use by about one-tenth → Read More

California braces for dry winter as Western drought drags on

California's dry streak is unlikely to break this winter → Read More

Newsom relaxes refinery rules as California gas prices soar

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called on state regulators to relax rules on oil refineries in an effort to lower soaring fuel prices → Read More

Stressed Colorado River keeps California desert farms alive

California's Imperial Valley, which provides many of the nation’s winter vegetables and cattle feed, has one of the strongest grips on water from the Colorado River, a critical but over-tapped supply for farms and cities across the West → Read More

Record heat wave puts California in fossil fuel conundrum

A record heat wave put California in a fossil fuel conundrum: The state has had to rely more heavily on natural gas to produce electricity and avoid power outages while Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration moves toward ending the use of oil and gas → Read More

Sheriff: 2 dead in Northern California wildfire

A sheriff says two people have died in a blaze that ripped through a Northern California town → Read More