Kathleen Ronayne
@kronayne916.bsky.social
AP journalist, directing California news coverage. kronayne@ap.org
Reposted by Kathleen Ronayne
Whether it's No Mow May or Let It Bloom June or Leave The Leaves, homeowners are finding more ways to adopt a low mow lifestyle instead of keeping up with short, manicured lawns.
Bored with manicured lawns, some homeowners adopt No Mow May all year long
Whether it's No Mow May or Let It Bloom June or Leave The Leaves, homeowners are finding more ways to adopt a low mow lifestyle instead of keeping up with short, manicured lawns.
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May 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Whether it's No Mow May or Let It Bloom June or Leave The Leaves, homeowners are finding more ways to adopt a low mow lifestyle instead of keeping up with short, manicured lawns.
The new CEO of California's high-speed rail project says he wants a plan in place by the end of summer on private funding. He spoke to @apnews.com about his vision for the embattled project: apnews.com/article/cali...
California high-speed rail leader pushes state to support private investment
The new chief executive of California’s embattled high-speed rail project says it is time to get serious about how to pay for it.
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April 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The new CEO of California's high-speed rail project says he wants a plan in place by the end of summer on private funding. He spoke to @apnews.com about his vision for the embattled project: apnews.com/article/cali...
Reposted by Kathleen Ronayne
A video showed a doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer.
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Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer
A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Rob...
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April 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A video showed a doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer.
My @apnews.com story with comment from @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social @craigspencer.bsky.social @pauloffit.bsky.social -->
My @apnews.com story with comment from @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social @craigspencer.bsky.social @pauloffit.bsky.social -->
Altadena residents who didn't lose their homes are now crowdsourcing data on lead and other contamination in their homes as they fight insurers to cover testing and remediation for smoke damage: apnews.com/article/cali...
In fight over insurance, neighbors crowdsource LA fire contamination data
Los Angeles-area residents whose homes survived the Eaton wildfire in January face a whole different set of struggles to their neighbors whose homes were burned to the ground.
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April 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Altadena residents who didn't lose their homes are now crowdsourcing data on lead and other contamination in their homes as they fight insurers to cover testing and remediation for smoke damage: apnews.com/article/cali...
Reposted by Kathleen Ronayne
President Trump said he will continue to restrict The Associated Press’ access to his events and news conferences until the outlet goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico in its reports. He acknowledged that the move was a presidential retaliation against AP's editorial policy.
Trump says AP will continue to be curtailed at White House until it changes style to Gulf of America
President Donald Trump says his administration will continue to restrict The Associated Press' access to cover presidential events until the news agency goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mex...
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February 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
President Trump said he will continue to restrict The Associated Press’ access to his events and news conferences until the outlet goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico in its reports. He acknowledged that the move was a presidential retaliation against AP's editorial policy.
Neighbors with identical homes, both gone in the Eaton Fire. One has been paid nearly a million dollars and is looking for contractors. The other is contemplating loans, lawsuits & leaving California. The difference? One has private insurance. The other has the FAIR plan: apnews.com/article/cali...
California's insurance crisis leaves neighbors facing unequal recovery after wildfires
Next-door neighbors lost their near-identical homes in a California wildfire, but how they are navigating rebuilding is a story of contrasting fortunes and unequal recovery, a stark reflection of the ...
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February 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Neighbors with identical homes, both gone in the Eaton Fire. One has been paid nearly a million dollars and is looking for contractors. The other is contemplating loans, lawsuits & leaving California. The difference? One has private insurance. The other has the FAIR plan: apnews.com/article/cali...
Government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.
But in Palisades and Altadena, like Lahaina, Santa Rosa, and Paradise before it, that system didn't work quite right: apnews.com/article/cali...
But in Palisades and Altadena, like Lahaina, Santa Rosa, and Paradise before it, that system didn't work quite right: apnews.com/article/cali...
Flawed emergency alert systems lagged when residents needed them most during Los Angeles wildfires
After the wind-driven wildfires broke out in Southern California on Jan. 7, evacuation orders for some neighborhoods came long after houses were reported on fire.
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January 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.
But in Palisades and Altadena, like Lahaina, Santa Rosa, and Paradise before it, that system didn't work quite right: apnews.com/article/cali...
But in Palisades and Altadena, like Lahaina, Santa Rosa, and Paradise before it, that system didn't work quite right: apnews.com/article/cali...
California lawmakers in 2020 expanded "defensible space" laws to require the clearing of flammable material within 5 feet of homes in high risk areas. Many neighborhoods that burned in Palisades Fire would have had to comply -- but the regs still aren't finished: apnews.com/article/cali...
California is years behind in implementing a law to make homes more fire resistant
California is years behind in implementing a 2020 law aiming to make it harder for homes to burn during a wildfire.
apnews.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
California lawmakers in 2020 expanded "defensible space" laws to require the clearing of flammable material within 5 feet of homes in high risk areas. Many neighborhoods that burned in Palisades Fire would have had to comply -- but the regs still aren't finished: apnews.com/article/cali...
The stories of those who lost their lives in the wildfires are just heartbreaking. apnews.com/article/cali...
Looking for his father, a worried son went to fire evacuation zone but found death and devastation
An 84-year-old man who was killed in the California wildfires had immigrated to the U.S. from China in 1989, and loved his Altadena home and the California fresh air.
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January 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The stories of those who lost their lives in the wildfires are just heartbreaking. apnews.com/article/cali...
An AP photographer captured this image of a blue VW van that somehow survived as everything around it burned.
Here's the story of that van: apnews.com/article/los-...
Here's the story of that van: apnews.com/article/los-...
A retro blue VW van miraculously survives deadly Los Angeles fire
A surprising AP photograph of an undamaged Volkswagen van surrounded by destruction from a Los Angeles wildfire has astonished viewers.
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January 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
An AP photographer captured this image of a blue VW van that somehow survived as everything around it burned.
Here's the story of that van: apnews.com/article/los-...
Here's the story of that van: apnews.com/article/los-...
Don't miss this recounting of the incredible evacuation of residents of a senior living community before the Eaton Fire overtook the building: apnews.com/article/cali...
'Nobody's dying': A look inside how a senior home evacuated before burning down in LA wildfire
As a menacing wildfire approached, staff and residents of a senior citizens home made a desperate escape for their lives.
apnews.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Don't miss this recounting of the incredible evacuation of residents of a senior living community before the Eaton Fire overtook the building: apnews.com/article/cali...
Posting here for the first time to share some key coverage from AP colleagues reporting on the LA-area wildfires:
-Live blog here: apnews.com/live/wildfir...
-Live blog here: apnews.com/live/wildfir...
Los Angeles wildfires: Updates from Jan. 9, 2025
Fires continue to rage across the Los Angeles area, prompting power outages, evacuation orders and curfews. The Palisades, Eaton, Hurst and Sunset fires have collectively consumed around 45 square mil...
apnews.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Posting here for the first time to share some key coverage from AP colleagues reporting on the LA-area wildfires:
-Live blog here: apnews.com/live/wildfir...
-Live blog here: apnews.com/live/wildfir...