Twilight Dance The Community Center will host it's first dance. Big Band music will be the theme and musical requests are welcome. A "no-host" bar with wine and beer is also available. Featuring the Big Bands of the Swing Era. Music provided by King Music Services Dance is from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Pollock Pines-Camino Community Center Pony Express Center, 2675 Sanders Drive $5 and includes light refreshments For more information contact: For more information (530) 647-9308
With California on edge as a heat wave threatened to worsen firefighting efforts, hundreds of people north of the state capital evacuated Tuesday after a fire shifted direction.
The first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season continued to weaken Tuesday, dropping to a Category 1 storm with 85 mph winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported.
The West's fire season used to stretch from May into August or September, but now fires touch off in April or earlier, and the season sometimes stretches into October.
NBC Universal and two partners said Sunday they have reached a deal to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications Inc., ending a drawn-out process.
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