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.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has ordered the city’s three main water agencies to draft proposals for protecting the Southland’s vulnerable aqueducts in the event of a catastrophic earthquake along the San Andreas fault. Los Angeles gets nearly 90 percent
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, 81, who fled the United States in 1978 the night before he was to be sentenced for statutory rape, wants to return, and his attorneys, including Alan M. Dershowitz, filed suit on Monday, accusing district attorneys
LOS ANGELES, California — The Los Angeles Fire Department’s Arson and Counter-Terrorism section, in conjunction with the National Response Team of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is seeking two men who could be witnesses to the massive fire
A man in San Francisco pulled off an expertly camouflaged heist when he robbed a bank wearing a Santa costume during the annual SantaCon celebration on the weekend, when thousands of people were similarly dressed up and in the streets.
California Gov. Jerry Brown, not known for his reticence on many issues, has declined to say much about the ongoing protests against the non-indictments of police officers in several high-profile cases in which police have shot unarmed black suspects. In
After Senate Democrats confirmed Obama’s Surgeon General nominee Vivek Murthy by a 51-43 vote on December 15, the Los Angeles Times reminded readers that Murthy believes “guns are a healthcare issue.” The newspaper also reminded readers that Murthy supports a
Try Cal Facts, a 72 page report produced by the California Legislative Analyst’s office, reveals that the Golden State is one of the largest economies in the world. The Los Angeles Times reported that according to legislative analyst Mac Taylor,
Mark Pulliam, an attorney who covered the California Supreme Court from 1993 to 2003 as the legal issues correspondent for California Political Review, has blasted California Governor Jerry Brown’s selection of Leondra Kruger for the Supreme Court. Pulliam writes in
Northern California’s “stormpocalypse” may have delayed travel at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) last week, but it also presented an opportunity for the restaurant workers there to spread their message and demands for higher wages, health care benefits, and job
Congress has allotted $5 million to the state of California to help fund the Earthquake Early Warning System, which should give up to one minute’s warning for those in metropolitan areas before the earthquake strikes. The state has tried for
Two new storms will descend on California this week, further adding to rainfall totals in the suddenly waterlogged Golden State, and increasing the risk of mudslides and debris flows for a second straight week. Although the storm will not be
Reports that eBay may lay off three thousand employees in preparation for its spin-off of PayPal should come as no surprise. For the last two years, the hot tech stock market eBay’s has gone went sideways. Despite its PayPal subsidiary
LOS ANGELES, California — A conference aimed at informing illegal aliens about the process through which they can attain legal status in the United States under President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty, wasted no time demonizing House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH),
Tesla was riding high in March when it raised $1.6 billion in a convertible bond sale to help fund its $5 billion Gigafactory designed to produce batteries for 500,000 electric cars per year. But with oil prices cut in half this
Some supporters of California’s proposed bullet train suggest that because the first leg of the southbound line starting in Merced would end in Burbank, rather than downtown Los Angeles, the Metrolink commuter rail network serving Los Angeles should be electrified,
More and more California lawmakers are jumping from congressional and state lawmaker seats to join high powered lobbyist firms on K Street. Former congressman Vic Fazio from Sacramento, Republicans Dan Lungren and John Doolittle are but a few of those
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A torrential downpour dropping 10 trillion gallons of water inundated the northern part of the drought-stricken Golden State on Friday before working its way down to the southern part of the state. Yet even with the huge amount of rainfall
A law professor at the University of California Los Angeles has been forced to apologize for, and withdraw, an exam question that asked constitutional law students to draft a memo outlining the arguments for prosecuting Michael Brown’s stepfather for incitement after
San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco are holding gun buybacks to commemorate the 2nd anniversary of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook elementary. The San Jose buyback is hosted by the San Jose Police, whereas the Oakland and San Francisco
Protests and riots in Oakland, triggered by the Michael Brown verdict in Missouri and the death of Eric Garner in New York, cost the city $1.3 million in overtime pay for police officers. SFGate reports that 14 protests over the
Friday a small tornado brandishing winds of 85 mph, tearing roofs off of houses and uprooting trees in its path, struck a South Los Angeles neighborhood. The National Weather Service confirmed that the Tornado was ranked as an EF0, which
LOS ANGELES, California — The developer behind downtown Los Angeles’s seven-story Da Vinci complex, one building of which was deemed a complete loss after a massive fire engulfed its wooden frame, has a history of building densely populated structures near
The General Election ballot in 2016 is likely to have more statewide ballot measures on it than California voters have seen in a long time. The main reason for this is that the number of signatures needed in order to
Conservative think tank Americans for Prosperity (AFP), co-founded by principals of Koch Industries, sued in federal court to prevent ultra-liberal California Attorney General Kamala Harris from using her office to disclose the names and addresses of their 90,000 donors. Harris
