Blue State Blues: Fire Aid Was No Fyre Festival
Fire Aid may be flawed, but it’s not Fyre Festival, the notorious fraud. Many — not all — of the recipient groups are doing good work.

Fire Aid may be flawed, but it’s not Fyre Festival, the notorious fraud. Many — not all — of the recipient groups are doing good work.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” that his state will match any changes made in Texas to the number of seats in the House of Representatives with redistricting.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) responded to President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness to make it easier for state and local governments to move the homeless into rehab centers by saying

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Wednesday that she had issued two new executive orders aimed at speeding up the rebuilding effort in Pacific Palisades, including the fast-tracking of “pre-approved” designs.

Southern California Edison is reportedly offering to pay residents of Altadena and northern Pasadena whose homes were destroyed or damaged by the Eaton Fire, rather than facing them in court and paying even more.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) wants to scrap California’s nominally independent redistricting process in favor of a partisan gerrymander for Congress, following in the footsteps of Illinois Gov. J.B. Prizker (D).

Chenguang Gong, a 59-year-old resident of San Jose, pleaded guilty on Monday to stealing missile-tracking technology from a research and development firm in the Los Angeles area.

California’s new $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast food workers has resulted in a significant decline in employment in that sector, leading to 18,000 fewer jobs than would have been the case otherwise.

A ban on parking RVs is set to hit the homeless population in San Francisco, a city where the issue of homelessness has long plagued residents.

Money raised by Hollywood for victims of the Los Angeles fires through FireAid went to some worthy causes – and some controversial nonprofit groups.

An illegal alien has been taken into federal custody after serving just three and a half years in prison for vehicular manslaughter.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to demand the elimination of cashless bail, saying the policy has failed and is endangering public safety.

President Donald Trump on Sunday accused Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) of falsifying loan documents and said Schiff “should pay the price of prison for a real crime.”

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Sunday that she wanted to “heap praise” on the Trump administration for its response to the Palisades and Eaton wildfires earlier this year — contradicting Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

A suspected drug dealer is facing murder charges in connection with the fentanyl deaths of two babies in May and August of 2023 in San Jose, California, Santa Clara County prosecutors said.

Questions are being raised about how the roughly $100 million raised by “Fire Aid” concerts in the aftermath of the Los Angeles fires earlier this year is being spent — with some claiming victims are receiving nothing.

The Los Angeles wildfires of January 2025 broke the record for the costliest fire insurance losses in history, with the insured losses alone reaching $40 billion, according to a new report.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has already started his 2028 presidential campaign — but his state has the highest unemployment rate in the United States.

The owner and heiress of In-N-Out Burger is relocating her family from California, one reason being it is “hard to do business” and raise a family there.

A child abuse investigation led authorities to the giant home of a couple in Arcadia, California, where they found 21 young children, some of whom were birthed by surrogate mothers, according to police.

U.S. Border Patrol swept a Home Depot parking lot near California’s capital, Sacramento, this week, arresting nearly a dozen illegal aliens.

The State of California sued the Trump administration Thursday over President Donald Trump’s decision to claw back $4 billion in federal funds for the state’s troubled and delayed high-speed rail project.

Zohran Mamdani has everyone worried about socialism in New York — but thanks to Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, it’s already here, in L.A.

A Democrat state senator from California is rejecting migrant detention facilities — holding some of the worst of the worst criminals convicted of murder, rape, and pedophilia — as “prison gulags,” bizarrely asserting that President Donald Trump is trying to establish a “fascist police state.”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is revealing new details about some of the illegal aliens arrested in a highly publicized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on a marijuana farm in the sanctuary state of California.

U.S. Special Envoy Ric Grenell accused California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday of lying about the state’s intention to conduct a “land grab” within the areas hit by the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fires.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had canceled $4 billion in federal funding for California’s beleaguered and delayed high-speed rail project — what critics call the “train to nowhere.”

California’s Butte County District Attorney ruled self-defense Monday over an incident in which a man was shot and killed at a homeless camp during a “gun duel.”

Local residents were outraged Tuesday after the California State Senate passed legislation that would create a new layer of local government to buy burned lots in L.A. for the purpose of building low-income housing.

Mario Tama / Getty)

A professor with California State University Channel Islands has been arrested for allegedly throwing a tear gas canister at ICE agents.

Rev. John MacArthur, who served as the pastor of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, California, died late Monday evening at the age of 86, according to several reports.

A California mother gets lots of questions about the unique birth dates of her four beautiful children.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom taunted Texas over redrawing its congressional districts, suggesting he would retaliate — though California, with an independent redistricting commission, has no legal way of doing so.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass took to social media Monday to boast about the wonderful job she thinks she is doing.

On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) commented on raids in California and said that while going after criminals is fine, President Donald Trump has “gone after kids. He’s going after farmworkers, other folks, folks that

California Gov. Gavin Newsom spent more than four hours on the Shawn Ryan Show, released Monday — as his state continues to struggle with wildfires, homelessness, illegal immigration, and other urgent crises.

DHS officials are accusing Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA) of setting a mob of left-wing rioters on an ICE agent, landing the agent in the emergency room.

A 19-year-old man tragically died Sunday evening while working in the kitchen at Tina’s Burritos factory in Vernon, California.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Friday that families affected by ICE raids would receive cash cards.
