Strong Santa Ana winds knocked out electricity for about 80,000 residents in Southern California on Monday, while high winds in the north part of the state forced utilities to pre-emptively shut off power to prevent possible wildfires.
Read moreAhead of Election Day, airwaves and mailboxes across California overflow with expensive campaign advertisements. On top of choosing elected officials, California voters – not lawmakers – will once again decide things like constitutional amendments, $50 billion tax hikes and obscure labor union disputes.
Read moreDeputies in California have used Doritos to lure a pig “the size of a mini horse” back home.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected bid by paint companies to avoid liability over lead paint abatement in California.
Read moreA Southern California man has pleaded not guilty to sending an email threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Read moreAttorneys for home-share companies Airbnb and Homeaway told a Ninth Circuit panel Friday that a strict Santa Monica, California, ordinance banning short-term rentals is frustrating their customers and disrupting their business models.
Read moreRock group Fleetwood Mac fired guitarist and singer Lindsey Buckingham over the phone in January this year and after 43 years and several albums he’s suing his former band members, according to a complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday.
Read moreA state court ought to decide if Grubhub must prove its delivery driver was an independent contractor and not an employee under a new game-changing state labor standard, a federal judge said Thursday.
Read moreA federal class action accuses State Farm Insurance and Verisk Analytics dba Insurance Services Co. of conspiring to undervalue homes burned in the October 2017 Wine County wildfires that destroyed 8,920 buildings and damaged 756.
Read moreThe California Coastal Commission got a reprieve from its typically hotly contested enforcement of the Coastal Act by homeowners Wednesday when it amicably settled a 33-year dispute over a lagoon access trail in Carlsbad, California.
Read moreLosing or gaining a measly hour in March or November feels like a complete unraveling of the fabric of time to my body. So my heart leapt for joy, briefly, this summer when the California Legislature decided to give voters a say on whether to scrap springing forward and falling back in the Golden State.
Read moreA California antiques dealer who sold narwhal tusks to an undercover agent has been sentenced to probation and was ordered to perform community service and pay fines, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office said Tuesday.
Read moreTwo sagging Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power lines made contact and ignited a blaze last year that killed four people and injured a firefighter in Northern California, fire officials said Tuesday about the latest wildfire to be blamed on power lines.
Read moreCalifornia’s gubernatorial candidates agree on one thing: California has become a downright unaffordable place to live. But that was about the only common ground Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Republican opponent John Cox found during a live public radio debate hosted by KQED on Monday.
Read moreA federal judge on Friday permanently barred the Trump administration from withholding policing grants from California, San Francisco and other so-called sanctuary jurisdictions across the nation.
Read moreThe owners of several vineyards claim in a federal class action that Napa County’s restrictions on helicopters are unconstitutional and will severely hamper their business.
Read moreCalifornia housing leaders gathered in San Diego Thursday to seek solutions for the statewide housing crisis, including the push for local and state rent control measures before the November elections.
Read moreIn a massive collection of property damage lawsuits stemming from the largest single wildfire in modern California history, a Los Angeles County judge said Thursday that Southern California Edison can’t escape a state law holding utilities financially liable when their equipment is determined to be the cause of a blaze.
Read moreA federal judge Tuesday blocked a second attempt by a former SoCal mayor to prevent the city of Poway from implementing its new by-district system for electing city council members this November, which he claims amounts to racial gerrymandering.
Read moreCan a butter knife qualify as a deadly weapon? That’s the question taken up by California’s high court Wednesday, and the justices appeared unconvinced.
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