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Kathleen Ronayne @kronayne

@AP Assistant News Director, overseeing California and Nevada news coverage. Former environment, political reporter. kronayne@ap.org

Joined April 2009
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Tijuana River sewage is making the air toxic and sickening thousands in California apnews.com/article/tijuana-r…

Tijuana River sewage is making the air toxic and sickening thousands in California

For decades, billions of gallons of sewage and industrial waste have been dumped into the Tijuana River.

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I wrote something about the great work of @akoseff and @SophiaBollag ‘Keep digging’: How the Chronicle broke the Eric Swalwell story sfchronicle.com/politics/art…

‘Keep digging’: What happened in the days leading up to the Chronicle’s Eric Swalwell story

The woman who answered a reporter’s call last month was hesitant, at first. She withheld the painful account she would later reveal. The next morning, she asked to keep talking.

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Democrats have run California for years, but in a nationally critical election the party is being confronted by the limits of its own power: the race for governor is out of control apnews.com/article/californi…

A messy California governor's race raises Democratic fears of potential loss

Democrats have run California for years. But in a nationally critical election, the party is being confronted by the limits of its own power: the race for governor is out of control.

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Dozens of protesters accused of assaulting federal agents in four cities have seen their charges reduced, dismissed or rejected by juries, a review by The Associated Press found. apnews.com/article/ice-immig…

DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump's immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled

The Justice Department has embarked on a monthslong effort to prosecute people accused of assaulting federal officers during protests of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

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Family members were getting ready to cut the cake at a 2-year-old's birthday party when gunshots rang out at a Stockton banquet hall, leaving 4 dead. "I actually thought it was my balloons popping," the girl's mom told @sophieadanna. More: apnews.com/article/californi…

A California family was about to cut the cake when gunfire erupted at a toddler's birthday party

Family members were getting ready to cut the cake at a toddler's birthday party when gunfire erupted inside a banquet hall packed with relatives and friends over the weekend in California.

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Newsom sat down w/ @AP's @borenbears at COP to discuss the Trump administration's absence, warning the US risks ceding its economic power: apnews.com/article/newsom-ca…

AP Interview: Newsom says Trump climate-fighting absence is 'doubling down on stupid'

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is criticizing the United States for missing key United Nations climate talks, calling it doubling down on stupid.

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Only on AP: At COP30 today, CA Gov. Gavin Newsom told AP he’s stunned by 8 senators’ decision to break with Democrats & end the shutdown, warning they’re not alarmed enough about President Trump’s political norm-shattering. My latest w/ @borenbears apnews.com/article/newsom-sh…

Newsom tells AP the eight senators who struck the shutdown deal aren't alarmed enough about Trump

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is warning that eight senators' decision to break with Democrats and end the government shutdown shows they aren't alarmed enough about President Donald Trump's impact on...

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The view from Redding as Prop 50 voting winds to a close. If it passes, voters in a vast rural stretch of Northern California would share a district with wealthy coastal areas like Marin County: apnews.com/article/californi…

In a California GOP stronghold, voters are not happy with Newsom's plan to help Democrats

Conservative voters in Northern California are alarmed that a ballot measure designed to diminish Republican representation could pass in November.

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.@AP story on proposed California new congressional maps has an interactive slider you can use to compare the current maps with the ones Dems want: apnews.com/article/texas-cal…

Democrats release plan to boost party's California US House seats in fight for Congress

Democrats have unveiled a proposal that could give California’s dominant political party an additional five U.S.

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California, Minnesota and Illinois expanded Medicaid to immigrants regardless of legal status. Now, they're rolling back or limiting it. AP explores how that contributes to an already complicated dynamic for immigrants seeking health care: apnews.com/article/medicaid-…

3 Democrat-led states have rolled back Medicaid access for people lacking permanent legal status

Three Democratic-led states that led the way in offering free health care to low-income people who are in the U.S. without legal permission are either limiting or ending the programs because of...

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The new CEO of CA's high-speed rail project talks to @AP about his plans for private funding & giving the project a reset. He wants to get from Gilroy to Palmdale in less than 20 years. That would require more transfers to get into SF and LA: apnews.com/article/californi…

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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The new CEO of California's high-speed rail project says he wants a plan for private investment in place by the end of summer. He spoke to @AP @sophieadanna about his vision for the ambitious but embattled project: apnews.com/article/californi…

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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Trump's coming to California Friday. Newsom doesn't yet know if he's invited to join the president: apnews.com/article/gavin-new…

Newsom navigates his relationship with Trump as wildfires ravage his state

California, Gov. Gavin Newsom is unsure if he’s welcome to join President Donald Trump’s wildfire tour.

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Homes were burning and roads already jammed when Pacific Palisades evacuation order came, AP finds apnews.com/article/californi…
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NEW: The evacuation order covering neighborhoods closest to the start of the Palisades fire didn’t come until about 40 minutes after some of those homes were already burning, according to an @ap analysis of emergency comms and interviews with survivors. apnews.com/article/californi…

Homes were burning and roads already jammed when Pacific Palisades evacuation order came, AP finds

An Associated Press analysis of emergency communications shows that the first evacuation order covering neighborhoods closest to the start of the devastating Pacific Palisades wildfire didn’t come...

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California is years behind in implementing a law to make homes more fire resistant apnews.com/article/californi…

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.

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CA lawmakers in 2020 passed new rules for clearing materials within 5 feet of homes in high-risk fire areas. Most of the areas burned by the Palisades fire would have to comply - but the regs still aren't finished. @nguyenntrann reports: apnews.com/article/californi…

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.

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An @AP photographer captured this image of a blue VW van that somehow survived as everything around it burned. @janiehar has the story of the van: apnews.com/article/los-angel…

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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Don't miss this vivid piece about the incredible evacuation of residents from a senior living facility before the Eaton Fire overtook it: apnews.com/article/californi…

'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.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Biden cancels final foreign trip of presidency to Italy to monitor response to devastating fires in California.
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