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.
Instead of using lawn mowers to keep grasses short in county-owned basins where brush is out of control, some Sacramento County residents have a novel idea: use goats. In the 10-acre Wilhaggin basin, dozens of goats are grazing and keeping
It is impossible–actually impossible for the California Legislature not to screw up a good thing. Trees could begin growing dollar bills and they would create a commission to regulate them and charge onerous taxes to the people that picked them.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti returned from a trip to Sacramento and announced that he expects somewhere around $400 in corporate welfare for Hollywood to be approved by the state legislature. Currently, Hollywood enjoys $100 in million corporate welfare. Since
SAN DIEGO — Two men were found dead in the trunk of an orange Dodge Challenger as the driver attempted to cross into the U.S. from Mexico through California’s San Ysidro port of entry Tuesday afternoon. Both men found dead
A Riverside, California beauty pageant queen was arrested last Friday for committing insurance fraud by claiming workers’ compensation benefits for a “foot injury” that she said inhibited her from standing on her feet for work–but apparently not from competing in
Despite decades of the medical community warning that time spent watching TVs, computers and cell phones can cause eye soreness, dizziness, blurry vision, headaches, and muscle strain, Americans are becoming more addicted to all screens–and especially small screens according to
The Surface Transportation Board has approved a portion of the California high-speed rail system stretching between Bakersfield and Fresno. A digest of the board’s decision reads: “The California High-Speed Rail Authority is authorized to construct a 114-mile high-speed passenger rail line
On Monday, George Clooney’s fiancée, Lebanese-born international lawyer Amal Alamuddin, turned down an appointment to serve on a special three-person panel for the United Nations Human Rights Council. However, she did not turn the position down before clearly enunciating her
On-the-run mixed martial arts fighter Jonathan Koppenhaver, known as the “War Machine,” is wanted for assault after he reportedly brutally beat up his porn star girlfriend Christy Mack on Friday in Las Vegas. This allegedly isn’t the first time Koppenhaver,
Sympathizers with the Hamas cause in Gaza have brought their tactics to America, publicizing an effort to blockade an Israeli ship from unloading its cargo in Long Beach, CA on Wednesday morning. The poster publicizing the intended event read, “Block
Ten San Francisco strip clubs held a job fair on Monday to look for workers, according to CBS News’ local affiliate. Axel Sang, director of marketing for BSC Management, which manages several night clubs, said, “San Francisco has one of
Family cat Cuppy trapped its owners for hours in a bedroom Tuesday night, resulting in a call to 9-1-1 and police response to free the woman and her daughter. A recording of the 9-1-1 dispatcher was played during an ABC
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a debate is emerging between the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) and the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency over the potential disaster if the 89-year-old Mountain Tunnel, which supplies 2.6 million
With much of the nation enduring the coldest summer on record, over the first seven months of the year California is officially experiencing its hottest year ever recorded. The San Bernadino Sun reported that that the three-plus years of drought
A California school district is seeking a “support services consultant” to help unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors navigate the state’s educational and support services. According to a USA Today report, the Oakland Unified School District began advertising for such a consultant
Wanna pay 8-9 bucks a gallon for gas? Think it couldn’t happen here? It’s already happening. The “Hidden Gas Tax”, buried deep within California’s”Cap-and-Trade” program, was tucked away in the fine print of AB 32–a 2006 bill that radically increased
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Tuesday that Democrats support President Barack Obama’s new military intervention in Iraq to attack some forward positions of Islamic State forces, deliver arms to Kurdish peshmerga fighters, and provide humanitarian aid to Yazidis
AVALON — When I learned that Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall had passed away, I was on board the Catalina Express, pulling out of the harbor in Avalon with a boat full of nearly 400 vacationers and fellow day trippers. I had
Two Catholic Universities in California announced they would cutfunding for elective abortions. Now the state Department of ManagedHealth Care is deciding whether all abortions can be consideredmedically necessary. Loyola Marymount and Santa Clara universityboth announced last fall that they would
Roman Polanski’s sordid past continue to haunt him. The famed director of Rosemary’s Baby and Chinatown will not personally collect a lifetime achievement award from the Locarno Film Festival as originally planned. The Hollywood Reporter says media critics as well
On Monday, the California Supreme Court blocked an “advisory” ballot measure that Democrats had hoped to include on the November ballot, with a view to increasing turnout among apathetic voters. The non-binding measure, Proposition 49, asked voters if they felt
A mother was so humiliated by her son’s allegedly burglarizing a person’s car in Apple Valley, that she posted an apology for his actions on her Facebook page. Breaking down in tears when she was made aware of her son’s
SAN DIEGO — Four persons charged with the kidnapping for ransom of a woman in Los Angeles earlier this month have been confirmed as illegal aliens–and one has been confirmed as “arrested and repatriated to Mexico three times since 1999,”
The ongoing drought in the Southwest has caused a drastic drop in water level at Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States which supplies water to California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and part of Mexico.
On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council will be paying out $26 million to garbage truck drivers as a result of a settlement triggered by a complaint by drivers who alleged they were denied meal breaks, KPCC public radio reports. More
