California Closing Last Nuclear Plant After 3 Decades
A utility company and environmental groups have reached an agreement that will close California's last nuclear power plant, ending the state's nuclear power era.
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A utility company and environmental groups have reached an agreement that will close California's last nuclear power plant, ending the state's nuclear power era.
The estate of Randy Wolfe, founder of the band Spirit, failed to prove it owned the copyright to his 1968 song "Taurus" or that it was substantially similar to "Stairway," attorney Peter Anderson said.
As a condition of the approval, Aetna agreed to limit premium increases in the small group market and to allow greater state oversight of its rates.
A respected Central California wine-maker is facing boycott calls after clear-cutting hundreds of iconic old oaks.
The National Weather Service is expecting another day of triple-digit temperatures in Phoenix and across much of the Southwest.
The Supreme Court has rejected challenges to assault weapons bans in Connecticut and New York, in the aftermath of the shooting attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that left 50 people dead.
Now the command staff will report to City Administrator Sabrina Landreth, who will be responsible for personnel and disciplinary decisions.
The state has provided $2.2 billion to build jails since 2007, including $1 billion since California began keeping lower-level offenders in county lockups instead of state prisons in 2011.
California voters will be asked in November to do away with the nation's largest death row and substitute life sentences with no chance of parole for nearly 750 condemned inmates.
The woman and child, estimated to have been 3 or 4 years old, died at the scene.
The proposed initiative would also require the Legislature to publish all committee and floor proceedings online within 24 hours and keep them online in a downloadable format for at least 20 years.
Los Angeles-based Kind Financial said Thursday that Microsoft will help it market its software to local and state government agencies that monitor marijuana growers or distributors.
The board of California Competes considered the credit for NextEV USA among $47 million taken up at its meeting Thursday to encourage job creation.
Guards discovered 55-year-old Gilbert R. Rubio in his one-man cell Thursday around 6 a.m. His cause of death has not been determined.
If all goes as planned, Juno will spend nearly a year circling Jupiter's poles and peering through clouds to scrutinize the planet's southern and northern lights, which are considered the strongest in the solar system.
