In Pajaro, county officials working with nonprofits have handed out about $1.3 million of its $20 million share: $450,000 in grocery gift cards to residents whose food spoiled during the flooding, plus about another $800,

A third day of an atmospheric river storm has inundated Northern California and the Bay Area, flooding creeks, roads, and low-lying areas across the region.

An atmospheric river dumping rain across Northern California and several feet of snow in the Sierra was making its way across the state Friday, bringing flooding and threatening mudslides along with it. The storm, the first major rainmaker of the season ...