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.

The FBI reportedly targeted Notre Dame and San Francisco 49ers legend Joe Montana as part of their probe that brought down Democrat state Senator Leland Yee and Chinatown gang leader Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow on arms trafficking and money laundering

Republican gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari is slamming GOP rival Tim Donnelly for his inconsistent position on “redevelopment,” a policy the California state legislature ended in 2011 with strong Republican support. “Tim Donnelly says he’s for redevelopment projects. Then he says

Katie Couric broke boundaries by tackling the male-dominated world of nightly newscasts and, recently, signed on with Yahoo to cover news for the online portal. That’s the positive spin on her post-Today show career. Her CBS newscast ratings never measured

This article originally appeared in the Daily Mail In its prime, a massive steam locomotive known as Big Boy No. 4014 was a moving eruption of smoke and vapor, a 6,300-horsepower brute dragging heavy freight trains over the mountains of

The iconic Beverly Hills Hotel has been the location for a lavish A-list Night Before Oscar party since 2003. Those days are over now that Hollywood has taken a rare and righteous stand against the horrors of Sharia Law. The

My Uncle Mark Stewart stood outside Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California this morning holding an American flag in support of students who were ordered by school administrators in 2010 to turn shirts inside out that were adorned

Hollywood mogul David Geffen famously threw his support behind then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008 rather than Sen. Hillary Clinton. The decision sounded personal, with Geffen calling the Clinton family’s political machine “very unpleasant and unattractive and effective.” Geffen also said

San Francisco’s Hook-Up Truck, which was designed for couples to copulate while in a commercial box truck that was mobile, made its debut over the weekend. Two couples climaxed their weekend with ejaculations of satisfaction. The brainchild of artist Spy Emerson,

Apparently, some revelers just couldn’t wait until Cinco de Mayo to celebrate: on May 1, 2, and 3, Lucha VaVoom, the Mexican wrestling and burlesque hybrid stage show based in Southern California, performed three shows in Los Angeles and Chicago

SeaWorld San Diego is expecting a new orca (killer whale) addition come December this year. 9-year-old Orca Kalia was impregnated by Ulises, the oldest male orca at the park. Kalia not only mated with Ulises, but was also artificially inseminated

Plans for a Cinco de Mayo drinking party dubbed “Cinco de Drinko” were slashed when nearly 100 students at the University of California, Davis, boycotted it, citing the name as being racially insensitive, according to the Sacramento Bee. The party,

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling may have discriminated against J.J. Redick, who is white. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling for life from the NBA after an audio recording surfaced in which Sterling tells girlfriend V. Stiviano not to

Attorneys for “John Doe No. 117,” a British teenager who is filing a lawsuit claiming sexual abuse by X-Men director Brian Singer and Broadway producer Gary Goddard, will present their client’s case Monday in Los Angeles. Singer is facing another suit

Sunday saw several brush fires break out near homes southern California, from San Diego to Los Angeles, in drought conditions that have local authorities bracing for potentially devastating fires in the months ahead. One fire, which burned across five acres

Some of the many non-profit organizations to which L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling gave money over the years have returned it–most famously, UCLA, which announced last week that it would give back the portion of a $3 million donation that Sterling and

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said that after speaking to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, he believes that Sterling will not give up his team easily even if the NBA attempts to force him to sell his team. “I

California Chrome, the first California-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby in 52 years, made the Run for the Roses look so easy that horse racing experts buzzed about his odds of possibly becoming the first horse (and the first

One of the most liberal Representatives in Congress wants California to raise its minimum wage to $26 an hour. Appearing on Crossfire on Friday, co-host Newt Gingrich asked Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) whether it was a good idea for the mayor of

The National Park Service has issued a warning to amateur pilots that drone aircraft are not permitted in Yosemite National Park. Drones, some of which are available on the civilian consumer technology market, have reportedly been used by hobbyists to
A U-2 spy plane, one of the key weapons of the Cold War, is apparently responsible for a computer failure in Los Angeles that disrupted air traffic control operations in California and across the nation, NBC news reports. Sources quoted by

California is this week’s target on President Barack Obama’s latest fundraising tour as he raises money for the Democratic Party and to receives a “Ambassador for Humanity” award from Steven Spielberg at a Holocaust memorial event, according to the Associated Press. California is one

Their fryers are broken. That’s what the manager of a San Diego KFC told a woman who is currently breastfeeding her three-month-old baby after she complained about being served two raw chicken sandwiches, according to local ABC affiliate in San

According to the Contra Costa Times, gas prices at the pump are expected to go down as much as 50 cents in California, bringing relief to beleaguered commuters now paying on average $4.26 per gallon. On Thursday, for the first time

China’s interest in purchasing U.S. real estate is seemingly only in its infancy, but it is picking up at an incredible pace, particularly in California’s Bay Area. According to the San Francisco Chronicle‘s website sfgate.com, the style in which the Chinese are