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.

On June 13 masked suspects with a fake gun held up Hiram’s Guns & Spirits in El Cajon, California. According to NBC 7 San Diego, while one suspect with the fake gun held employees at gunpoint, “two others smashed the

In the time since our April expose titled “California: Here Come the Oil Trains“, pressure has been mounting on state and federal officials to disclose the number of hundred tank-car trains that are rumbling into California carrying highly combustible crude

For those who generally prefer the company of trees over the company of people, Muir Woods is a transportive place to visit. If you get here right at sunrise, you will have the 500 acres pretty much to yourself, except

In an astonishing challenge to traditional Catholic doctrine, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, nominally Catholic, has taken to telling San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone that he should not attend the National Organization for Marriage’s June 19 march on the Supreme

Because of tension between the United States and Russia over the Russian invasion of Crimea, the storied Rocketdyne plant in Canoga Park that once built engines to take rockets to the moon may be revived, the Los Angeles Times reports. Rocketdyne,

The UC Irvine chapter of Young Americans for Liberty was unimpressed by the fact that Barack Obama gave the university’s Saturday commencement address at Angel Stadium, creating a mock “program schedule” for the event. The post read like this: Program

Concert tickets can be hard to come by, but imaging ponying up for a ticket to a concert that technically doesn’t exist yet. A group of die hard Foo Fighters fans in Virginia did just that, and soon the quartet

California lawmakers are considering the creation of an ammunition registry that will require ammunition purchasers to go through a background check–including fingerprinting–and obtain an “ammunition purchaser permit” before getting ammo. The registry is contained in Senate Bill 53, which passed
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who leads the Republican Governor’s Association (RGA), appeared at a $10,000-per-head luncheon in San Francisco on Friday, and campaigned earlier in the day in support of Neel Kashkari’s efforts to unseat Governor Jerry Brown in

A Los Angeles inmate already serving a life sentence for murder and robbery was sentenced on Friday to an additional 25 years to life for the 1997 strangling of a fellow inmate suspected of child molestation. According to the Los

A Blackfish bill was tabled by the California legislature earlier this year, and now the film’s controversial accusations against Sea World are rippling through Congress. Two members of Congress have gathered 40 signatures calling on the USDA to renew research

President Barack Obama arrived in Palm Springs, California on Saturday via Air Force One to spend Father’s Day playing golf. Hours earlier, he had lectured graduating students at University of California, Irvine, about the need to “do something” about climate

Even as Iraq is falling to renewed attacks by radical Islamists, pro-Russian forces escalate the killing of Ukrainian soldiers, and as thousands of illegal immigrants are surging across our borders causing misery and a national health crisis, President Obama has

President Obama delivered the commencement speech at UC Irvine on Saturday afternoon, telling graduates they “have a right to be optimistic” and urging them to get involved in the fight against climate change. According to NBC Los Angeles, the President

As of Friday, California state department officials have declared the state is in the midst of a whooping cough (pertussis) epidemic. Officials are urging everyone living here to get vaccinated, placing a particular emphasis on pregnant women and infants. “Preventing

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is ready to collect on his bet with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and hear him sing Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” on Jimmy Kimmel Live following Friday night’s Stanley Cup victory by the L.A.

On Friday, San Diego police were searching for a woman whom they alledged murdered her wife of just six months and then skipped town. According to the Daily Mail, police have issued an arrest warrant for Tiffany Nowden-Vale, 39, whose

The College Board’s “Trends in Higher Education” report found that California had the lowest community college tuition and fees in the nation for the 2013 to 2014 term. The report also determined that many of California’s community college students don’t

Friday night’s Stanley Cup Finals Game 5 between the Los Angeles Kings and the New York Rangers was the highest-rated Game 5 in 14 years. The Kings won the Stanley Cup – their second in three years — when Alec

California state Senator Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) is pushing Senate Bill 1010 to “equalize” punishments for crack cocaine and powder cocaine based on a perception that harsher crack sentences are “racist.” Mitchell’s bill comes in reaction to those who believe

Deadline reports that less than 10 months after President Obama appointed her to the Board of Trustees for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Shonda Rhimes will return the favor in July with $32,4000 a ticket fundraiser at Rhimes’

Alec Martinez hammered home a rebound in double overtime to give the Los Angeles Kings a 3-2 Game 5 win over the New York Rangers and their second Stanley Cup title in three years on Friday night. In a frenetic

The Los Angeles City Council decided unanimously on Wednesday to pay a $215,000 settlement to a man who wore a Ku Klux Klan hood to a public commission meeting and then sued the city when they ejected him from the

California lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown have reached agreement on funneling 25% of tax revenue from the state’s cap-and-trade program into constructing the controversial high speed rail project, often referred to as the bullet train. According to the Sacramento Bee,

Rep. Ami Bera, in the wake of an impressive primary win in the 7th District earlier in the month but considered to be vulnerable in November, broke with his party and voted against federal funding for Governor Jerry Brown’s besieged high-speed