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LAKEPORT, Calif. — The Lakeport, Kelseyville, Clearlake Rotary Clubs will be a part of a Northern California torch relay to continue bringing awareness to polio.

By Robert Lewis and Lauren Hepler, CalMatters

A woman speaks at a podium during a press conference as a group of people stand behind them inside of a blue backdrop inside an office building. — Jennifer Levi addresses the media during a press conference at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on Feb. 12, 2026. Levi recounted how her son, Braun Levi, was killed by a drunk driver in May of 2025. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters

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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed into law four bills aimed at curbing a startling rise in DUI fatalities in recent years, including measures that make it easier to charge repeat drunk drivers with a felony and, if they kill someone, with murder.

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On Friday — California Native American Day — Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill making the day a paid holiday for state employees.

This sequence of images, taken with the GRAVITY instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), show several stars orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. One of these stars, known as S301, was recently found to pass much closer to the black hole than any other known star. S301 orbits Sagittarius A* every 8.7 years. At its closest approach — similar to the distance between the Sun and Saturn — the star moves at more than 8% the speed of light. The size of Neptune’s orbit is shown as a reference. S301 passes so close to Sagittarius A* that its orbit could be affected by the rotation of the black hole, which twists space-time around it. The effect is small, but could be potentially measured in the next few years with the VLTI and ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction. The orbit of S301 is displayed here with an elliptical curve. In each frame, the solid curve shows the path that the star has already completed up to that point, whereas the dashed one marks the path it will follow afterwards. Credit: ESO/GRAVITY collaboration.

European Southern Observatory

Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, orbiting the black hole at its centre.

**Volunteers finish their walk in solidarity with those in recovery at Austin Park.**

ALBERT CHERN

CLEARLAKE, Calif. — The work of recovery, and the community groups that support it, was the focus of a weekend event in Clearlake.

KELSEYVILLE, Calif. — With fall comes a Lake County tradition — the Kelseyville Pear Festival.

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NORTH COAST, Calif. — The California Highway Patrol has issued a “Feather Alert” for a Hopland who was last seen earlier this month.

**The Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest is transitioning into winter management. Photo courtesy of Cal Fire.**

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COBB, Calif. — Cal Fire’s Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit said Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest is transitioning to winter season management.

By Kristen Hwang, CalMatters

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California voters will soon decide whether to tax billionaires — but even if a majority says yes, the measure could still lose to either of two billionaire-funded measures designed to cancel it out.

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