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Northern California is a land of dramatic contrasts: soaring skyscrapers and towering redwoods, bustling cities and pathless wilderness, pounding surf and glittering snowcapped peaks. Vintners practice their centuries-old craft in some of the greatest wine-producing areas of North America, while nearby entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley reinvent the world of computers on almost a daily basis. Northern California is home to California's capital (Sacramento), its third-largest city (San Jose), the second-highest mountain of the Cascade Range (Mt. Shasta), the third-most visited national park (Yosemite). It is a land of superlatives.
The area has been popular for a long time. The first pre-Columbian settlers arrived here as long ago as 8,000 BC, and quickly made the area one of the most densely populated in North America. Europeans didn't settle here, however, until 1770, when the mission of Monterey was founded. But with the discovery of gold near Sacramento in 1848, northern California became a magnet for settlers. The area experienced a 300% increase in population during the Gold Rush years; and while the pace slowed considerably in later years, by the turn of the century over a million people lived in the region.
Today, more 12 million live in the northern California region. Yet outside of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento areas, northern California has a low population density: of the fifteen counties at the bottom of California's population figures, only one of them is outside this region.
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Plastiki, the plastic bottle boat, to set sail
Mar 20, 2010 7:00 am
The Plastiki, a boat with a hull built of 12,500 plastic bottles, was set to sail from a Sausalito yacht harbor this morning on a risky and adventurous voyage across the Pacific. The purpose, said exp...
Senate confirms Obama nominee Sharon Browne
Mar 20, 2010 7:00 am
The principal attorney for the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacramento was among six nominees of President Obama who won unanimous Senate confirmation Friday to the board that oversees fed...
Furloughs of state workers' comp lawyers illegal
Mar 20, 2010 7:00 am
The first state appeals court to consider the furloughs of state employees ruled Friday that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acted illegally last year when he ordered hundreds of state lawyers to take two ...
Highway 1 closing for Devil's Slide work
Mar 20, 2010 7:00 am
Highway 1 will close Wednesday for emergency work at Devil's Slide, which is living up to its name with several recent rockslides. Caltrans will close the highway between Linda Mar Boulevard in Pacifi...
S.F. sues over PG&E-backed ballot measure
Mar 19, 2010 7:00 am
San Francisco and a group of government-owned utilities from around California took their campaign against a Pacific Gas and Electric Co.-sponsored ballot measure to court Thursday, arguing that Propo...
Legislative Analyst rips business reports
Mar 19, 2010 7:00 am
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office has sharply criticized the research in two reports, one funded by taxpayers, that have been used by some Republicans as the basis for calls to roll back re...
Aug 26, 2009 7:00 am
Oakland: Jackson Street gets patched up a bit
Aug 26, 2009 7:00 am
What's working better: Four months ago, Chronicle Watch reported on Oakland's Jackson Street between Seventh and 10th streets. It was a stretch of pavement so strewn with crevices that Chronicle Watch...
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