University of California research and technical employees got a boost from U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday when he joined them at a rally in Los Angeles over stalled contract negotiations as union members call for better wages and a reduction in outsourcing.
Read moreSACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – In the wake of a catastrophic wildfire that ripped through a foothill community during what’s normally
Read moreTrying to recoup potentially hundreds of millions of dollars for Uncle Sam, federal prosecutors are eying a Northern California couple’s clouded riches that they say was built on an $800 million scam involving solar panels.
Read moreResidents and officials who packed a yacht club on the north shore of the Salton Sea in Southern California on Tuesday vented their anger about what they perceive as unnecessary delays and obfuscations about the environmental and public health disaster unfolding here.
Read moreCalifornia’s judiciary is more diverse than ever in terms of gender and racial makeup, but Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said in her State of the Judiciary speech Tuesday there is much more work to do.
Read moreOver the last few weeks, thousands of wildflower enthusiasts have descended on a small Southern California town to experience the “Super Bloom” of California poppies and other wildflowers brought on by a very wet winter. But the chaos of managing the crowds caused the city to temporarily close access to the hills to the public Sunday.
Read moreSANTA CRUZ, Calif. — A state judge ruled against an environmental group’s objections to repairs to a rail line, paving
Read moreWhen the Judicial Council of California asked the courts for input on its statewide review of the judiciary’s sexual harassment policy, many of the responses expressed concern about how to report future misconduct.
Read moreA federal judge ordered West Sacramento to pay $4.8 million to a family into whose home a police officer unlawfully entered and shot the husband without justification, after which other officers “relentlessly harassed” the family; the shooter was fired.
Read moreIt was a tale of two San Diegos this week as a state assemblyman Thursday introduced two bills aimed at increasing government transparency following the public backlash which led a state senator earlier in the week to kill a bill he’d written with the city attorney which would have made it harder to recover attorney’s fees under the California Public Records Act.
Read moreAfter enduring one of the worst droughts in its recorded history, California is officially out of drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Read moreA year-long investigation into conditions at three homeless shelters in Orange County uncovered rampant sexual harassment, age, race and gender-related abuse, and rodent-infested facilities that lacked heat on cold nights and flooded during storms, according to a report released Thursday.
Read moreMillions of children enrolled in Medi-Cal aren’t getting basic preventative health checkups required by the program, which serves nearly half of all kids in California, according to a state audit released Thursday.
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The judge overseeing Pacific Gas & Electric’s bankruptcy case said Wednesday he still hasn’t made up
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Biting remarks from three Ninth Circuit judges on Wednesday appeared to dash the Trump administration’s hopes
Read moreLOS ANGELES (CN) – The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal Wednesday of claims by Airbnb and HomeAway that a Southern California
Read moreCalifornia will close up shop on its death chamber and postpone all executions under an executive order signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s nominee to the Ninth Circuit apologized Wednesday for controversial articles he wrote while an undergraduate at Cornell University, saying he was naive when he penned pieces on sexual misconduct, affirmative action and other issues.
Read moreA California appellate court declined to take up an appeal from a Contra Costa County police union on Tuesday who were told by a state judge last month that police misconduct records created before 2019 can be released to the public.
Read moreCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom will announce Wednesday that 737 inmates on the state’s death row, the largest in the country, will receive a reprieve as he plans on signing an executive order to halt all executions.
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