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.
Leave it to adventurous Californians to turn the state’s Stormageddon 2014 into a sporting event. Making the best of invasive floodwaters, school closures and business shutdowns, residents of wine country’s Healdsburg pulled out their kayaks and innertubes for a day
Cuddly kitties and precious pooches were rescued from rising floodwaters when Healdsburg firefighters carried the little ones from a waterlogged building Thursday. Sweet photos of the rescuers embracing the cute companions conveyed the firefighters care in delivering the pets to
The ferocious rainstorm that drenched much of California this week and the smaller storm that hit last week have finally begun moving the needle in the right direction for the drought-ravaged state. While no one storm could end the state’s
After one of the most resounding election victories in recent history, the GOP establishment–not “leadership,” because there’s none of that to be found–has surrendered, granting an undeserved victory to an embattled, lame-duck president, whose policies were roundly rejected by voters.
A small group of protesters chanting “Black lives matter!” and “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!” blocked traffic on Market Street in San Francisco Thursday night, despite the rainstorm, asserting that the inconvenience of the
A recently passed California initiative, endorsed by the state’s Democratic party, the ACLU, and George Soros, is responsible for an increase in Fresno crime figures, according to Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer. Wednesday Dyer criticized Proposition 47–which reduces or eliminates
As the Washington, D.C. media focused on the fiscal maneuverings of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), whose opposition to the omnibus spending bill was thought to set up a 2016 presidential run, some are touting Gov. Jerry Brown as the real
A powerful rain storm Thursday is set to bring up to four inches of rain to San Francisco and other cities in the Bay Area. Residents scrambled to install sandbags to prevent flooding, while motorists became stuck on water-logged roads.
Reverend Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow PUSH road show flew into Silicon Valley this week to chastise top tech corporations for being overly white and Asian males. Jackson, who was hosted by Intel Corporation at their Santa Clara campus, lectured
On Wednesday, federal agents arrested 25 Mexican Mafia-tied “Big Hazard” street gang members known for bogus complaints against police officers, threats against black Americans, illegal weapons sales and assault of local residents who cooperate with law enforcemen. A large multi-agency
On December 9, an Antioch homeowner shot and wounded one of two burglars found in his home. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the wife texted her husband–who was working at home–to let him know a motion detector sensor had gone
Debris left from the 2011 tsunami in Japan may deposit invasive species on the north coast of California as a result of this week’s storm, the Eureka Times-Standard reports. An area off the coast called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
At least 155,000 Bay Area residents were without power Thursday morning as a powerful storm, “expected to be one of the strongest storms in terms of wind and rain intensity” in nearly 10 years according to the National Weather Service,
UAW Local 2865, which represents 13,000 student workers in the UC system, is now the first labor union in the United states to officially support the “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” (BDS) campaign against Israel. On December 4, 1,411 student workers voted
An undercover police officer who embedded himself with protesters marching in Oakland Wednesday night reportedly drew his gun on some demonstrators after he and his partner were attacked. Wednesday marked the fifth straight night that demonstrators took to the streets
Aviation titan Boeing Co. will lay off 561 employees across its Southern California operation centers by February of next year. According to the Los Angeles Times, 253 people at Boeing’s Long Beach facilities will lose their jobs, while an additional
LOS ANGELES, California — Terrorism is not yet being ruled out as a possible cause behind the massive conflagration that rendered downtown Los Angeles’s up-and-coming Da Vinci complex a total loss. “At this point nothing is [being] ruled out,” special
The constitutional issues involving President Barack Obama’s executive orders on amnesty far transcend the issue of illegal immigration. The president’s action strikes at the very heart of our separation of powers. The Constitution reserves to Congress alone the power to
The hacking collective Anonymous claimed responsibility for taking down the city of Oakland police department website, as well as its Twitter account, Wednesday morning. The site remains down as of 3 o’clock p.m. Pacific Time. Tango Down: http://t.co/GkcyFseZPY #ShutItDown #ICantBreathe
Police are reportedly investigating an incident caught on video of a protester as he assaulted a man attempting to prevent the looting of a Radio Shack during Sunday night’s protests in Berkeley, California. The protests, which have occasionally turned violent,
The Orange County Equality Coalition, founded to fight for gay marriage after California passed Proposition 8 in 2008, has sued the California Department of Education and its Office of Equal Opportunity, claiming that those agencies are not protecting LGBT students.
In less than 45 days, Los Angeles City county attorneys will return a plan to officials underlying steps to carry out a “john-shaming” campaign that will publicly display the identities of people who solicit sex from prostitutes. Part of the
Northern California is bracing for another powerful rainstorm this week, as the National Weather Service predicts 3 inches of rain to fall on San Francisco between Wednesday and Thursday night, and up to 8 inches to fall in higher elevations.
Tuesday the Los Angeles County supervisors with the strong backing of newly elected Sheriff Jim McDonnell voted to install a civilian oversight commission to oversee the embattled Sheriff’s Department. The Los Angeles Times reported that the board voted down a
The police chief of Richmond, CA, Chris Magnus, joined a protest against alleged police brutality in Ferguson, MO and Staten Island, NY on Tuesday while holding a sign reading “#blacklivesmatter.” Roughly 100 fellow protesters held signs while they listened to
