Former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown poses on The Embarcadero with the western span of the Bay Bridge -- now bearing his name -- in the background. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)
San Francisco City Hall is lit up with rainbow-colored lights in honor of the 10-year anniversary of gay marriages in San Francisco. On Feb. 12, 2004, then-mayor Gavin Newsom began conducting same-sex marriages. The weddings were halted by the California Supreme Court on March 11, 2004, and helped catapult marriage equality into the national spotlight. (Olivia Hubert-Allen/KQED)
Despite heavy rains last weekend, California's drought is still in full effect. “We're in a statewide drought, and so this did basically nothing to relieve anything basically south of Sacramento,” said Jeff Mount, co-founder of the Center for Watershed Studies at UC Davis. The storm dumped heavy rain and snow on the Sierra. That triggered massive flows in the American River and its tributaries, and has led to a rapid rise in Folsom Lake. Still, Folsom is at just 25 percent of capacity and less than half its average level for early February. (Justin Sullivan/Getty)
