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.

A group of four self-proclaimed female Catholic priests from Southern California who are part of a larger, international group of 180 women who were excommunicated are reportedly defying the Catholic Church by pushing to oversee the ordination of female priests despite

California Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta, representing the 18th district, which comprises the central East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, is sponsoring a bill that would give the state permission to distribute condoms to prison inmates. The bill is

State Senator Kevin de León was elected in 2010 to represent California’s 22nd senatorial district. Recently he sent out fliers to promote his re-election which state, incorrectly, that he is running for State Assembly. De León’s staff sent corrected versions

According to an upcoming TV advertisement, a new California bill to ban plastic bags sponsored by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Los Angeles) will put Californians out of jobs and line the pockets of the grocery industry. The ad slams Padilla for

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire ignited hillsides and destroyed more than two dozen homes Wednesday in the coastal city of Carlsbad as weary firefighters scrambled to control multiple blazes in Southern California on the second day of a

On Tuesday, thirteen Democrats on the California State Assembly Health Committee voted down a bill that would have outlawed the practice of sex selection through abortion. The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (AB 2336) ran into opposition by all of the Democrats on the

A student at Villa Park High School in Orange County filed a lawsuit against his history teacher on Monday, accusing the teacher of challenging him to an arm wrestling match during class and subsequently breaking his arm, according to the

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — Hundreds of professional dominatrices began arriving in Los Angeles Wednesday for the eleventh annual DomCon, one of the largest conferences of bondage professionals in the United States. Held every year since 2004, DomCon is less about

U.S. Judge Christopher Klein, who is presiding over the Stockton city bankruptcy case, said on May 13th he will question officials from the California Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) in a bench trial that will last until Thursday, May 15th to determine whether the

The manager of a Redding pharmacy will not be recommending Covered California to any of her customers. After completing a personal application for the healthcare website, she received 87 phone calls from insurance solicitors within hours. Shante Luster complained that

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Sony has snagged the rights to Glenn Greenwald’s Edward Snowden-based book, No Place to Hide for Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, the producers behind the long-running James Bond franchise. Apparently, the goal will be to craft

A cat has saved a young boy from a vicious dog attack in a spectacular fight caught on surveillance video. The boy is making his way up a driveway on a toddler’s balance bicycle, struggling with each step, when a

On Tuesday, legislators, business groups and tax reformers reached a compromise to change part of California’s Proposition 13, the legendary restriction on property taxes passed by referendum in 1978. At the time, Prop 13 heralded the beginning of an economic

Oak Park High School, located near Agoura and Thousand Oaks, CA, will host a Holocaust survivorat a “stand-up assembly” as a result of anti-Semitic and racist tweets by six underclassmen. According to Principal Kevin Buchanan, two of the perpetrators “are

One Bay Area woman’s extraordinary journey of perseverance and love has transformed the face of China’s orphanages Berkeley filmmaker and screenwriter Jenny Bowen’s non-profit organization, Half the Sky is now training every welfare worker and administrator in China to nurture

Rabbi John Rosove, national co-chair of the Rabbinic Council for the left-wing J Street lobby group, posted a fierce defense of the group on Monday, which he said the Los Angeles chapter of J Street had delivered in person to “one

A dangerous heat wave has arrived in Southern California resulting in the issuance of red flag warnings throughout the region and temperatures at beaches that are expected to rise above those in the infamously hot Death Valley, according to NBC4

According to reports from wildlife officials, it appears California’s gray wolf, known as OR-7, may have found love in southwestern Oregon’s Cascade Mountains and could be expecting pups, which would make it the first known wolf breeding in the mountains

Rev. Jesse Jackson, who critics say has benefited financially by targeting companies, accusing them of racism, and then collecting their gilt and guilt-edged donations or benefited from contracts given to firms that paid him for referrals, is planning to target

Last week the California Senate passed a resolution calling on President Obama to stop the deportation of “undocumented immigrants” with no criminal history. The resolution calls on President Obama to suspend deportations by executive order. It passed with bipartisan support

San Mateo County authorities recovered approximately 1,000 pounds, or over $1 million worth, of marijuana from an SUV that was apparently abandoned after it got stuck in the sand at Pescadero State Beach on Monday morning, according to San Francisco Chronicle

After Donald Sterling questioned whether Magic Johnson has helped minorities and implied that Johnson was scheming to take the Clippers from him, Johnson responded by saying that nothing Sterling can do or say will help him keep his team. “My

Republican gubernatorial candidate and Tea Party favorite Tim Donnelly was in second place in the latest poll, with a net favorable rating. California’s newspapers, however, seem determined to change that. The Los Angeles Times has focused on comments Donnelly made

The oh, so tight race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman in California is attracting some unlikely political forces. Last week, singer Alanis Morissette recorded a campaign song for Marianne Williamson, one of several candidates vying to fill the

Governor Jerry Brown’s $750-million tax incentive program may be an attempt to shut the stable door after the horses have bolted. Toyota and Occidental Petroleum are already packing their bags and moving to Texas, where costs of doing business are lower and