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.

UPDATE: The Fresno County coroner confirmed that Pearson was murdered early Thursday morning, shortly after his mistaken release. He was found in the middle of a Fresno street with “fatal wounds” to his torso and head, and was transported to Community Regional

LOS ANGELES — Tens of thousands of video game and technology fans descended on the Los Angeles Convention Center on Wednesday for Day 2 of the 2014 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the video game industry’s premiere trade show and one

The teachers of the Los Angeles Unified School District are not satisfied with the raise offered them by the Los Angeles Unified school board, which approved pay raises for its employees on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Daily News reports. The board

The California State Controller has announced that sales, income and corporate tax revenue came in $530.4 million, 7.8%, below budget for the month of May. That substantial budget miss comes less than two weeks after the California Bureau of State Audits

Behind the conservative’s dream-come-true victory of tenure laws and union contracts for California’s public schools teachers being ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by a Los Angeles Superior Court, is an organization called Students Matter. The group is led and funded by Silicon Valley

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before a judge’s scathing ruling against California’s teacher tenure policies, the once-sacred protections that make it harder to fire teachers already had been weakened in many states — and even removed altogether in some places. Florida,

A watchdog group has called on the California Department of Motor Vehicles to slow Google down in its rush to get the company’s driverless cars on the road. A prototype for the vehicle was released in May. According to the

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) transported hundreds of illegal immigrant children who were stopped by US Border Patrol agents to the Naval Base Ventura County in the City of Port Hueneme. City officials claim they were not

Silicon Valley billionaire and Napster co-founder Sean Parker has announced he’s moving into politics with a new social media network platform called Brigade Media, which will act as a sort of LinkedIn for civic life and political engagement via Facebook.

Is Tesla the latest target of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s recent campaign to woo California businesses to the Lone Star State? Perry was seen cruising around in a Tesla vehicle in Sacramento Tuesday, just days after Governor Jerry Brown’s administration

The Los Angeles Times reports that P.F. Chang’s, an Asian restaurant chain with roughly 200 franchises across the United States and abroad, may be the newest outlet targeted by hackers who stole the restaurant chain’s customers’ credit and debit card

Today, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), who lost his primary race yesterday, made it clear that he would like his protégé and good friend, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), to succeed him as Majority Leader. While insiders and pundits had

Paula Deen, the 67 year-old celebrity chef who was personally and professionally destroyed last year by America’s bigoted elite for having a Southern accent and enjoying food, announced Wednesday that Hollywood and the media can shove it. Backed by an

A new study by Ball State University shows that “95 percent of…college executives surveyed opposed” concealed handguns on campus and “65 percent” opposed them off campus as well. “79 percent of those surveyed did not own a firearm.” Published on

On Tuesday, a UCLA study revealed that almost one in four adult video performers has contracted gonorrhea or chlamydia and that a whopping 69% claim that they never use condoms while performing on set, despite the 2013 Los Angeles city

A Stockton beauty supply store security camera caught a woman stealing human hair extensions and shoving them in her purse. CBS Sacramento reported that the thief struggled with the owner of the store, who was armed with a stun gun,

Betty Yee and fellow Democrat John Perez continue to jockey for second place in California’s state controller’s race. The second place spot has also been held by Republican David Evans, who now sits in fourth. With over 320,000 votes left

As the shocking news last night of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor losing his primary traveled like lightning around Capitol Hill, pretty much everyone was taken by surprise. After all, since the inception of the position of Majority Leader, no

A Silicon Valley high school unknowingly published copies of a yearbook which included an anti-Semitic slur against a Jewish classmate from Israel. The Contra Costa Times reports that a student at Monta Vista High School had intentionally changed the last three

The California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, a left-wing group seeking equal access to health care among minority communities, has asked Covered California to increase its collection of demographic data. On May 22nd, CPEHN sent a letter to Covered California’s executive director

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan’s collision with the driver of another vehicle over the weekend has drawn attention to a previous conviction she received in traffic court for a red-light violation, and raised questions about whether she or the driver of the other
Drought and water shortage have plagued California’s citizens and farmers as crushing government regulations compound natural causes of the water deficit. Desalination plants planned up and down the California coast offer one part of the solution, and have now been

The trial of four people who led an Occupy break-in in Santa Cruz has been delayed repeatedly for more than two years. Now a judge says it’s time to get the case moving. Superior Court Judge Paul Burdick said last

Although some may say good riddance to the side-show behavior at Venice Beach, Climate Central is predicting that, within 30 years, global warming-triggered conditions could produce “unprecedented coastal flood heights in the Los Angeles area.” The LA Weekly reported that

About.me has raised $11 million from investors and plans to revitalize the personal identity networking website, according to TechCrunch. Co-founder Tony Conrad says the money will add features, make it more user friendly and will invigorate the site with the