Only Bay Area Has Recovered from Great Recession in CA
Only four counties out of California’s 58 have fully recovered from the Great Recession, in the sixth year after the official economic recovery began.
Only four counties out of California’s 58 have fully recovered from the Great Recession, in the sixth year after the official economic recovery began.

Only 6,057 votes are yet to be counted from California’s June 3, 2014 primary election, and the margin between second and third in the Controller’s race remains razor thin. Now the question has been raised whether a recount is imminent.

An elderly couple who flipped their blue Honda on its side in a rollover crash in Bel Air, California, didn’t stop short of posing for pictures, including taking a selfie by the man’s wife who was still trapped inside the

A proposed “potty parity” bill in California will make it mandatory that diaper changing facilities be available in public men’s restrooms as well as women’s. CBS Sacramento reported that, now that women have become more active in the workforce, men

Santa Monica has joined cities like Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Long Beach in banning e-cigarettes from all locations regular cigarettes are not allowed–including clubs, bars, restaurants, etc. –, following a unanimous vote by the Santa Monica City Council on Wednesday

In response to Senator Dianne Feinstein’s rebuke last month that environmentalists “have never been helpful to me in producing good water policy,” the Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC) and the Pacific Institute recently published a new report claiming that “drought-plagued California

The battle between San Francisco and Los Angeles for the right to host a planned museum dedicated to Star Wars creator George Lucas ended in a draw. Neither city won. Instead, Chicago is the future site for The Lucas Museum

It is no longer just runaway film production undermining employment opportunities for Angelenos. The Los Angeles Daily News reports on a new study that shows television productions are also fleeing the former-Golden State in favor of what was once (and still

Legislation containing “Gun Violence Restraining Orders” which could include bans on gun ownership for persons convicted of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) has cleared the California Senate Public Safety Committee and is headed to the CA Senate Appropriations Committee. The

According to the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the passage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act, or JOBS Act, in 2012, has stimulated at least eighty biotech companies to offer initial public offerings of stock, also known as IPOs, according to

Milo’s Kitchen Treat Truck, a food truck serving meaty treats for dogs, will roll through San Francisco for its opening day launch this week. The truck will serve up free samples of chicken meatballs and grilled “burger bites” to lucky

In the aftermath of Mexico’s 3-1 victory over Croatia in the World Cup, hundreds of raucous fans roamed the streets of Los Angeles rocking cars and throwing bottles at officers, forcing the LAPD to go on a city-wide tactical alert.

A group of Occupy Wall Street activists staged an “Occupy Google” protest Wednesday evening to push the Internet giant to embrace the cause of “net neutrality,” which would allow the government to regulate the rates charged and bandwidth provided by

ESCONDIDO, California-Tensions ran high as an estimated 500 people packed Escondido City Hall, flowing into the foyer and courtyard, for a planning meeting Tuesday night to voice their opinions on a proposed 96-person, illegal alien youth detention facility. Escondido Mayor

Uber drivers who feel they have been snubbed by the popular app-based ridesharing company have received help from teamsters who held a demonstration for them on Tuesday morning to help them ebb closer to organizing an association which would represent

Republican moderate Neel Kashkari begins his gubernatorial challenge to incumbent Democrat Jerry Brown 20 points behind in the latest Field Poll, released Wednesday morning. While Kashkari appears to have cemented his support among Republicans, Brown leads Kashkari among almost every

Only by Obamacare’s standards could Covered California, Sacramento’s state-run Obamacare exchange, be considered a success. Outside California, Obamacare is fading fast in the states. Some – led by Oregon and Maryland – intend to abandon their Obamacare health-insurance exchanges and

A high-profile skin care specialist’s competitive streak was taken to a whole new extreme when it was discovered that she tried to hire a white supremacist group to “take out” one of her competitors, who she described as a “double

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has joined over 140 counties and municipalities countrywide in ending the practice of holding deportable inmates, including illegal immigrants, past their scheduled release dates in order to turn them over to federal immigration authorities. The

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Los Angeles Municipal Code section prohibiting the use of a vehicle “as living quarters either overnight, day-by-day or otherwise” is unconstitutionally vague under the due process clause

The cause of a U.S. Navy sailor’s death during a routine parachute training jump remains unknown, reports CNN. The accident occurred in the desert near the southern California city of El Centro on Monday. The sailor has been identified as 31-year-old

The San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade has banned military recruiters from participating in the 44th annual event this weekend, the most iconic of its kind in the world, due to the National Guard’s policy against transgendered service members, and in

The L.A. Weekly has published 10 rules of etiquette for the many outdoor movie screenings the city offers throughout the summer. The rules really, though, offer an amusing peek at the warped values of leftists: Drugs, sex, and talking are

Facebook has removed a string of pages which sold clothing and action figures promoting the Islamic terrorist organization ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/Levant) after the Silicon Valley-based tech giant was probed by Foxnews.com as why the pages had not

Starting up a new film company is never easy. Industry veteran Jeff Robinov had two things in his favor. An impressive track record with ties to some of film’s heaviest hitters and the ears of Chinese investors. Fosun International Ltd