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.
A 23-year-old Ojai, California native has pledged not to shower for 128 days to promote water conservation during the state’s devastating drought. Cody Creighton launched what he calls his “One Day Dirtier” campaign on Instagram last week, in honor of
Mounting wildfires near Pollock Pines and near Bass Lake are forcing residents to leave what they have behind and evacuate the areas. Three miles north east of Pollock Pines, the King Fire that started on Saturday afternoon has devoured 3,900
On Monday, it was announced that 50 workers from the Golden Gate Bridge District would go on a one-day labor strike Tuesday to voice their disdain with recent proposals surrounding wages and health care premiums. Unions are saying a proposed
A man leaped to his death on Monday afternoon from the 12th floor of the Standard Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Fred Corral, a spokesperson with the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office investigation division, confirmed with Breitbart News Network this morning
Reminiscent of President Obama’s Solyndra debacle, an electric vehicle manufacturer in Chatsworth, to which Jerry Brown donated three million taxpayer dollars, has shut down operations and laid off 50 workers. According to Stephen Frank at California Political Review, “our confused
Homeowners near Mission Peak in Fremont are getting fed up. Visitors to Mission Peak Regional Preserve have gotten so numerous that there is a constant flow of traffic, parking in front of driveways blocks homeowners from leaving, and trash left
STUDIO CITY, California — Race was not a factor in the detention of Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts by Los Angeles police officers last week, according to officers and members of the community who spoke with Breitbart News. Police had been called to
There may be a new gravitational center for Catholic thought on the very land tread by 1700s Spanish Franciscan missionary Father Junipero Serra, and a lawyer is at the heart of much of it. It’s indicative of the move in
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and House Majority PAC have increased their spending to help embattled Democrat Rep. Julia Brownley fend off a strong showing from Republican challenger Jeff Gorell. According to Roll Call, the increased spending on the
The San Francisco Chronicle has urged readers to vote no on proposition 45, an attempt to let state regulators have control over insurance prices. Under current California law, the state insurance commissioner can deem health insurance rate increases to be
SAN FRANCISCO, California — Breitbart News paid a visit to Twitter Headquarters on Wednesday to gauge reactions from the social media company’s employees about recent threats directed towards them from the Islamic State (ISIS). Islamic State extremists have been using Twitter’s social
Support for the death penalty among California voters is at its lowest point in nearly fifty years, according to the findings of a recent Field Poll. Just 56% of Californians favor keeping the death penalty, while 34% would like the
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, suddenly realizing his populist appeal to hike the minimum wage might trigger businesses to leave the city and relocate in nearby areas, is pressuring cities near Los Angeles to impose a hike in their minimum
SAN DIEGO, California — Extreme temperatures have led San Diego County area schools to implement “minimum day” schedules for schools with less than 100% classroom air conditioning.The high heat comes as the county is in the midst of a 20%
The Castro Valley Unified School District, apparently a sleepy school district, decided that they needed to purchase something to wake them up: a $14,000 espresso maker. Local CBS News affiliate KPIX in San Francisco reported that local citizens were furious
For the first time in the history of California groundwater will be restricted for numerous landowners, if Jerry Brown signs a package of passed bills by the state legislature. Up until now, groundwater remains a private natural resource in the
LOS ANGELES, California — Daniele Watts, who played ‘Coco’ in the movie Django Unchained, was detained along with her boyfriend Brian Lucas by two Los Angeles police officers last week, after someone reportedly called 911 complaining that the couple had committed “indecent
Just 13% of California voters approve of the job Congress is doing, while an overwhelming 75% disapprove, according to the results of the latest Field Poll released over the weekend. The poll’s findings also show that California Democrats are more
The day after Nevada lawmakers approved a package of tax incentives worth $1,538,000 per job to persuade California based Tesla Motors Inc. to build its Gigafactory battery plant in the state, California Governor Jerry Brown, who is rumored to be
The Walt Disney Co., DreamWorks Animation, Digital Domain, Pixar, Lucasfilm and Sony Pictures are among the defendants in a new multi-billion dollar class-action suit contending that Hollywood studios and their vendors conspired to suppress tech workers’ wages through secret “non-poaching” agreements. The suit follows
The environmental group Earthjustice, funded by George Soros and joined by the Sierra Club and ForestEthics, is suing the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) in order to prevent crude oil from North Dakota’s Bakken formation to be moved to California. The suit
Flu season is just around the corner, but there’s a different kind of virus that may have recently resurfaced in California called Enterovirus D68 (EV D-68). It targets children, and many parents are already worried. “As a parent, what you
SANTA MONICA, California — The Associated Press reports that the city of Santa Monica, California beat 300 other towns in competing for $1 million in funding from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge to study “just how much people in this picture-postcard
U.S Forest Service officials claim that bears are threatening the safety of fire crews already risking their lives putting out a wildfire in Yosemite National Park. The wandering bears, smoked out into the open foraging for food in trash and
Severe Drought conditions in California has dried up the Eel River in northwest California to the point where water is no longer coming to the surface near the city of Fortuna. Zane Ruddy, a biologist with the National Marine Fisheries
