State and national experts testified before members of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on Thursday, highlighting strides made to decrease veteran homelessness over the past decade and continued challenges to getting housing vouchers accepted in cities facing housing crises.
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Offering a California town that burned last fall as proof of the devastation global warming can cause, Vermont Senator and 2020 hopeful Bernie Sanders promised wildfire survivors Thursday that as president he will hold the oil industry liable for its “criminal behavior.”
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California fishermen are reporting one of the best salmon fishing seasons in years, thanks to heavy rain and snow that ended the state’s historic drought.
Read moreCo-workers of a disgruntled employee at a Marriott hotel are being praised for thwarting a mass shooting after police said they found an arsenal of high-powered firearms at the 37-year-old man’s home.
Read moreA black-market arms dealer who sold guns, anti-tank rockets, anti-aircraft missiles and other weapons to governments and militant groups around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
Read moreA small army of city workers and dump trucks descended on a shoreline park in Oakland on Tuesday to remove dozens of homeless people from a makeshift camp after a federal judge granted the city’s request to carry out the contested eviction.
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California’s water regulator voted Tuesday to spend $1.3 billion over the next 10 years to provide safe drinking water to communities throughout California.
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For a moment as columns of sunlight drifted through the pines with the cobalt surface of Lake Tahoe in the background, it seemed as though the partisan rancor so characteristic of this political moment might temporarily evaporate. But such congeniality was short lived, if it ever lived at all.
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Casting an EPA memo that announced the policy as “all bark and no bite,” the D.C. Circuit rejected a lawsuit Tuesday from California and environmental groups challenging the EPA’s new scheme for classifying sources of air pollution.
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In a welcome change of pace after back-to-back historic wildfire seasons, the number of fires and total acres burned through August in California is down drastically compared to recent years.
Read moreThe United States brought a federal complaint against Southern California Edison, Utility Tree Service and Frontier Communications, for the cost of fighting the August 2016 Rey Fire, which burned 19,752 acres of Los Padres National Forest, after a tree fell onto power lines.
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Scientists working to preserve endangered fish in the Sacramento River unveiled a new water-management plan Tuesday that might protect the river’s salmon while maintaining a healthy environment for other fish.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden will be a no-show at a major Democratic event in California for the second time this summer.
Read moreCalling for a transformation in a state where officers fatally shot more than 120 people in each of the last three years, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that requires officers to avoid deadly force and only shoot when “necessary.”
Read moreThe risk of wildfire has dramatically increased in the west, and most of that increase is because of humans. But experts told utilities commissioners Friday that presents a silver lining: problems caused by people can also be solved by them.
Read moreA state court jury will decide if Pacific Gas and Electric should be held liable for the 2017 Tubbs Fire that killed 22 people and caused $6.2 billion in damage, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreLess than a decade ago, California served as an economist’s cautionary tale about out-of-control spending, unfunded liabilities and unbalanced budgets.
Read moreGrowers in California’s Central Valley, famous for transforming patches of desert into the world’s most productive farmland, suffered more than any other during a recent stretch scientists mark as the Golden State’s driest since record-keeping began in 1895. The meager rain and snowfall between 2011 and 2015 forced some smaller farmers to give land back to nature or sell their remaining water supplies to bigger, wealthier farmers and developers.
Read morePainting it as an economic threat and a cruel attack on immigrants, California sued Friday to stop the Trump administration’s new rule that allows the government to deny green cards to people relying on some forms of public assistance.
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