A majority of California voters support an upcoming ballot measure that would strip funding from the high speed rail project and divert it toward new water storage projects, according to a poll released Thursday.
Yesterday, the University of California Student Association voted on a resolution to divest from companies with economic ties to Israel. While other media personnel were granted access immediately, Breitbart News Journalist Adelle Nazarian was initially denied entry to the hearing.
LOS ANGELES, California — An emotionally-charged and highly divisive vote took place at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on Sunday as pro-Israel students attempted to thwart two different divestment resolutions at the UC Student Association (USCA). Both divestment resolutions subsequently passed, including one which called for divestment from most of the world, including the United States.
The Berkeley City Council will meet on Tuesday to address several police response-related issues pertaining to vandalism and other incidents because of protests over the deaths of two black men in Missouri and New York.
California will receive $50 million for drought research, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced this weekend.
The battle to prevent police searches of smartphones, computers or tablets without a warrant has finally gained a key supporter: the tech industry.
Video emerged on Saturday of a brawl that took place last month between students of Santa Monica High and Beverly Hills High after the sweep of the JV and varsity boys’ and girls’ basketball teams by Beverly Hills.
The Orange County Register floated the possibility of a Jerry Brown 2016 run, noting that Brown has $24 million in his gubernatorial campaign coffers.
When Neel Kashkari made his ill-fated run for governor last year against popular incumbent Democrat Jerry Brown, many thought Kashkari’s real goal was establishing his statewide credentials so that he might challenge for Senate once one of the two long-serving incumbents retired. But Kashkari said this weekend that he would not challenge for the open seat being vacated by Barbara Boxer, according to the Sacramento Bee, meaning that no Republicans have yet declared for the race.
Each member of the Los Angeles City Council now earns more than Governor Brown and more than every U.S. Congressional member, according to a study from the Pew Charitable Trust.
Doctors are warning parents against reviving “measles parties” intended to expose their children to the disease at a gathering with at least one infected person.
The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) announced that loading and unloading operations at all 29 West Coast ports would temporarily be suspended this weekend in response to union slowdowns that brought freight movements at the ports to a near standstill.
Phillip Smyth researcher at the University of Maryland and purveyor of blog, Hizballah Cavalcade, joined Breitbart News Executive Chairman, Stephen K. Bannon, on Breitbart News Saturday to discuss Shiite Islamist militarism in the Middle East. Much of the conversation focused on Smyth’s recent monograph, The Shiite Jihad in Syria and Its Regional Effects.
According to a new survey even the most poor and volatile regions of Africa have higher immunization rates than the USA or Canada.
Border patrol agents with National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) Local 1613 are publicly voicing concern over new policies the representatives say pose a threat to national security.
A second incidence of anti-Jewish vandalism has surfaced at UC Davis. A newly released report indicates that between January 22 and 23, someone wrote “grout out the Jews” on the tile grout in a stall in the men’s bathroom at the school’s Hillel House.
In a press release on Friday, Congressman from California, Darrell Issa, responded to “disturbing” reports suggesting that Southern California Edison misused the H-1B visa program.
It is looking more and more as if the race to succeed Barbara Boxer in the United States Senate will feature California Attorney General Kamala Harris against former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Although Harvard University after almost four centuries of existence instituted a total ban on professors having “sexual or romantic relationships” with students, the University of California continues to steer clear of issuing a ban.
A storm brought on by an atmospheric river – a ribbon of water vapor extending thousands of miles from the tropics to the West Coast – will bring drenching rains to Northern California after a record dry January in the region.
Good news for one small part of California; it’s not considered drought-ridden, like the rest of the state, anymore. The area, which represents .16% of the state and lies near Lake Havasu and the Colorado River, was removed from the drought list shown in the U.S. Drought Monitor Report, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Berkeley #BlackLivesMatter protesters who occupied downtown Berkeley last month reportedly caused a 30-minute delay in the time it took for paramedics to reach a collapsed 62-year-old man who was having trouble breathing. Henry Alvin Jones later died.
A member of the rap group Cypress Hill won a Santa Ana city lottery Thursday for the rights to open a medical marijuana dispensary in the Orange County city.
In a push to improve cybersecurity Barack Obama plans to visit the Bay Area next week to hold a Cybersecurity Summit at Stanford University on Friday.
California Governor Jerry Brown signaled an openness to the announcement of a bill co-sponsored by two state senators that would eliminate vaccine exemptions based on “personal” and religious belief on Wednesday.
For the last four months, the International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union has been involved in a “work slow-down” to shake-down employers for higher wages. But with 29 West Coast ports handling 43.5% of U.S. containerized cargo shipments and the movement of 12.5% of America’s GDP, a looming strike could cost billions of dollars per day and severely injure the U.S. economy.
