About 10% Of Mail-In Ballots Returned So Far For California Primary Election
Vote-by-mail for the California primary is underway, but new research shows a bleak picture.
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Vote-by-mail for the California primary is underway, but new research shows a bleak picture.
The City of Sacramento says it has too much water and it's going to make millions of dollars selling it to other parts of the state, despite already declaring a "water alert" for the summer and doubling fines for water-wasting violators.
California moved a step closer Wednesday to creating sites where people could legally use drugs under supervision designed to save them from dying if they overdose, over the objections of opponents who said the state would be enabling dangerous and illegal activity.
The men and women that fight California's wildfires are at a breaking point, according to the Cal Fire union president who said that is a result of bigger fires and a staffing shortage.
The severe drought in California threatens to significantly undermine the state's ability to generate hydroelectric power, raising costs for families and driving up planet-warming emissions, according to a federal government forecast.
The reparations movement hit a watershed moment Wednesday with the release of an exhaustive report detailing California's role in perpetuating discrimination against African Americans, a major step toward educating the public and setting the stage for an official government apology and case for financial reparations.
Gas prices just took another big step in the wrong direction.
A state database is putting children at risk after the state auditor's office says a filing error may have given child abusers access to young people.
A former executive of a San Francisco Bay Area solar power company was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $620 million in restitution for his role in a $1 billion fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said.
California's first-in-the-nation task force on reparations will release a report Wednesday documenting in detail the harms perpetuated by the state against Black people and recommending steps to address those wrongs, including expanded voter registration, making it easier to hold violent police accountable and improving Black neighborhoods.
The CHP had a busy holiday weekend on California roads.
The weekend arrest of Paul Pelosi, the husband of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, on suspicion of driving under the influence came after the Porsche he was driving was hit by another vehicle in Northern California's wine country, authorities said.
A California fisherman illegally caught hundreds of Dungeness crabs in the protected North Farallon Islands State Marine Reserve, according to a lawsuit filed last week by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.
Earth is expected to pass through the debris trail of a broken comet on Monday night and early Tuesday morning. It could result in a brand new meteor shower.
Megafires aren't just burning down homes, trees and wildlife in the West. They're also destabilizing the soil.
