Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to pay more than $55 million to avoid criminal prosecution for two major wildfires started by its aging power lines in Northern California.
Calif. lawmakers target homeless camps along riverbeds
State lawmakers are targeting a different scourge tied to the state’s homelessness crisis: riverbed encampments.
Spring Break Fever: No deal on gas relief as Calif. lawmakers hit the road
It could be at least weeks before Californians see that relief promised almost a month ago by state lawmakers.
Report: Clovis Unified teachers union effort may have to start over
A would-be affiliate of the powerful California Teachers Association may have to start gathering signatures again to force unionization at California’s largest non-union school district.
Judge rejects Calif. law mandating racial, LGBT diversity on corporate boards
The lawsuit argued that the diversity-on-boards law violated the state’s constitutional equal protection clause.
Pelosi on Calif.’s sky-high gas prices: “How could this be?”
Pelosi mused about California gas prices during her Thursday briefing as the Biden administration struggles to confront the on-going pain at the pump.
Lawmaker pulls Calif. bill to mandate vaccines for all workers
The bill was a state-level proposal that resembled the Biden administration’s overturned employer vaccine mandate.
Hog wild: SCOTUS to weigh in on Calif. law threatening “bacon crisis”
The U.S. Supreme Court is diving into a legal beef centering on how pork is raised.
Third member of 1976 Chowchilla school bus hijacking recommended for parole on 18th attempt
Frederick Newhall Woods, one of the three men who hijacked a school bus and kidnapped 26 children in Chowchilla, Calif. …
Valley, SoCal grocery workers on verge of strike. Here are the stores that could be affected.
Thousands of central and Southern California grocery workers have voted to authorize their union to call a strike against several major supermarket chains as contract negotiations are set to resume this week.
