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By Denny Walsh, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Jul. 22--In a landmark case, the federal government will announce a $102 million settlement today with the Union Pacific Railroad Co. over a forest fire that devastated a massive national forest area near the Feather River Canyon eight years ago.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ In a landmark case, the federal government will announce a $102 million settlement today with the Union Pacific Railroad Co. over a forest fire that devastated a massive national forest area near the Feather River Canyon in California eight years ago.

By Phillip Reese, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Jul. 9--OROVILLE -- Fifty homes have been destroyed in the Concow area of Butte County by a fire that remains poised today to bear down on the town of Paradise as the number of evacuees grew to 10,000 this morning.

By Ryan McCarthy, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif. Jun. 5--The Yuba-Sutter region, close to the Sierra snowpack and above the Delta, is a good place to be during a drought.