The Los Angeles Times reported last week that California’s high-speed rail project still plans to meet its legal commitment to travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2 hours and 40 minutes or less.
Data suggest that the number of U.S. wildfires has diminished, and the size of fires has increased, partly due to the federal government slashing the number of air tankers, and changing the way fires are fought — not just because of “climate change.”
A flock of 50 Bird dockless electric scooters that arrived at the Newport Beach Peninsula last weekend without a permit caused lots of complaints and were promptly banned by the city.
The U.S. National Preparedness Center issued its highest Level 5 alert on Tuesday as 63 of the 177 large wildfires burning across America are rated “uncontained.”
The latest battlefield in the fight over medical marijuana pits members of the abstemious Mormon Church against one another in Utah.
President Trump on Saturday declared a California emergency after the Carr Fire that became a tornado and roared into Redding killing 2 firefighters, burning 80,906 acres, causing 38,000 evacuations and threatening another 4,978 structures.
The California Water Commission was awarded $816 million of Proposition 1 money to begin building the $5.2 billion Sites Reservoir — the state’s first big reservoir since the 1970s. The $7.5 billion Proposition 1: Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement
Arson is suspected in the Cranston Fire, which is 5 percent contained after burning 7,500 acres in the San Jacinto Mountains by Thursday evening due to high temperatures and low humidity.
California farmers welcomed the Trump administration’s announcement Tuesday of a $12 billion agricultural relief package, but are still anxious about the impact and duration of a trade war.
The Trump administration will reportedly move this week to rescind an Obama administration waiver that has allowed California to set its own vehicle fuel economy standards.
Frefighters battling the Ferguson Fire near Yosemite Park reported that the blaze, which grew slowly this weekend, could accelerate by Wednesday.
Blowback is rising against Bird and other companies providing all-electric scooter rentals that are taking over the streets and sidewalks of California’s major metro areas.
An Orange County Superior Court Judge decided July 19 to fast-track the City of Huntington Beach’s lawsuit challenging one of California’s “sanctuary state” laws, and set a date for a September 27 trial.
Tesla was forced to deny a report by highly rated Silicon Valley tech analysts at Needham & Company that cancellations for its Model 3 sedan are outpacing new orders.
A bill that critics claim could bail out PG&E for its strict liability regarding last year’s wildfire is moving forward in the California legislature.
The National Right to Work Foundation (NRTWF) is demanding the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) refund up to $100 million in union fees to California state workers.
Mayor Eric Garcetti, a Democratic contender for president in 2020, is hiring a tourism consultant to advise on managing traffic, housing, and homelessness as Los Angeles prepares for 50 million visitors a year by 2020.
A Mexican citizen living in Tijuana with 40 aliases was sent to U.S. prison after admitting he assumed an American identity to collect almost $361,000 in government benefits fraudulently.
Victorville Federal Prison, which was designed to hold 1,400 inmates, is struggling to house an extra 1,000 border detainees due to stepped-up immigration enforcement efforts.
The Economic Institute reported this month that the Bay Area would be the 19th-largest economy in the world, if it were a country, after growing at the fifth-fastest rate of any nation since 2014.
California trash separated for recycling is increasingly being sent to landfills after China slashed its demand for importing American waste, according to the Los Angeles Times.
California’s Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, the heir apparent to Governor Jerry Brown, seems to be backing away from a single-payer healthcare mandate — after progressive Democrats helped deliver him a victory in the California primary last month.
CalFire reported a shrinking number of blazes, and big progress containing named fires, at 7 a.m. Sunday morning despite all-time-record temperatures and statewide “Red Flag” risks.
The latest Subsidy Tracker reveals that some of the most prominent Silicon Valley tech corporations enjoy $840 billion in government subsidies.
CalFire reported 18 major wildfires as of noon on July 3, including the “County Fire,” which, in total, had already burned 72,500 acres and were less than 15 percent contained as of Tuesday.
Elon Musk’s triumphant Sunday afternoon tweet, claiming that Tesla produced 7,000 cars in 7 days, spiked the company’s stock market value higher by $4 billion at the opening of trading on July 2 — but it crashed by $6 billion by the close.
Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democrat-controlled California legislature surrendered to privacy advocates and passed some of the world’s strongest online protections to prevent a November initiative vote on even stronger protections.
San Francisco became the first California city to implement a $15 minimum wage ordinance for all businesses on July 1. The union-backed “Fight for $15” claimed Seattle as the first city to pass a $15 minimum wage ordinance in June
Gov. Jerry Brown’s international cap-and-trade pact to tackle climate change is on the verge of imploding following the election earlier this month of a new government in Ontario, Canada, that ran on the promise of dumping the very expensive climate change deal.
Gov. Jerry Brown trumpeted his achievement of steering California through a seven-year financial turnaround as he signed his 16th and final general fund budget of $138.7 billion.
California’s Secretary of State officially placed the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association’s “Repeal the Gas Tax” initiative on the November statewide ballot.
California’s legal marijuana industry is about to see big business move in to buy up small players in expectation of continued high growth in the markets for medical and recreation pot.
California’s Democrat-controlled legislature could pass a bill that would ban restaurants from offering kids’ meals that include fruit juice or chocolate milk.
As of last week, both houses of the California legislature have now passed a bill that would allow voters to end Daylight Savings Time by referendum this November.
Tesla finally confirmed that the company’s “Solar” division will end a partnership with Home Depot and close about 20 percent of its installation centers.
Tom Steyer’s $40 million campaign for the impeachment of President Donald Trump could undermine California Democrats’ congressional races, as likely voter polls hit new highs for America moving in the “right direction.”
California Democrats are trying to convince voters to ignore the “Cal 3” initiative, which would create three separate states. But it may be a risky strategy.
The non-partisan “Truth in Accounting” project, which analyzes government financial reports, has awarded California an “F” grade for claiming surpluses instead of a $269.9 billion deficit.
President Donald Trump told reporters a 25 percent tariffs on Chinese technology goods will help Silicon Valley, but a top industry trade group that represents Google and other companies says Trump’s tariffs will hurt profits.
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes made a court appearance Friday after being indicted for a “massive fraud” in the blood-testing business that once made her the toast of Silicon Valley.
