"California has been mean to Black people": State reparations task force inches closer to final report
The countdown is on as California's reparations task force examines the harms of slavery and systemic racism. A final report is due by July.
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The countdown is on as California's reparations task force examines the harms of slavery and systemic racism. A final report is due by July.
California's new law banning new oil and gas wells near homes, schools and other community sites has been put on hold until after voters decide next year whether to throw it out, officials announced Friday.
Children in California won't have to get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools, state public health officials confirmed Friday, ending one of the last major restrictions of the pandemic in the nation's most populous state.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans moved last year. The reason? Think housing costs, jobs and taxes.
"When deputies arrived, Smith was being detained by bystanders," authorities said.
A UC Davis study shows a surprising number of mountain lions are being hit and killed by cars on California roads.
Tax season has arrived — the IRS began accepting and processing 2022 tax returns on Jan. 23. Taxpayers will get an additional three days to file this year; the typical April 15 deadline falls on a holiday weekend, so the deadline was pushed back to April 18.
A San Joaquin County viewer was surprised to get a 1099-MISC for his Middle Class Tax Refund of $700. When Brian Johnson of Morada entered the info into the tax program he was using to file his taxes, it showed he owed the IRS more money. California says it would not tax the money.
In a first-of-its-kind enforcement, the Federal Trade Commission has imposed a $1.5 million penalty on telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx Holdings Inc. for sharing users' personal health data with Facebook, Google and other third parties without their consent.
California could soon ban people from carrying guns in nearly all public places as Gov. Gavin Newsom and his allies in the state Legislature seek to test the limits of the U.S. Supreme Court's new conservative majority in the aftermath of six mass shootings last month that left 29 people dead
Ahead of Black History Month, a group is showing history through a new lens.
California released a plan Tuesday detailing how Western states reliant on the Colorado River should save more water. It came a day after the six other states in the river basin made a competing proposal.
A former executive of a California solar power company was sentenced Tuesday to 6 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $620 million in restitution for his role in a $1 billion fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said.
The behavior of three Memphis EMTs who responded to the Tyre Nichols arrest has been condemned by professionals across the country, including by a board member of the California Paramedic Foundation.
Priscilla Presley flagged issues with a trust amendment, such as misspelling of her name and the lack of a witness.
As California regulators explore new rules to put self-driving semi-trucks on the road, labor unions are rushing to the state Legislature to ask for a new law they say will protect their jobs — the start of a debate that could shape the future of the nation's nearly $900 billion trucking industry.
Democratic lawmakers in California introduced a package of climate bills Monday aimed at holding corporations accountable for their greenhouse gas emissions.
The federal government will allow Medicaid dollars to treat some people in prisons, jails or juvenile detention centers for the first time ever.
A voter initiative that would overturn a California law aimed at raising wages and improving working conditions for fast food workers has qualified for next year's ballot, authorities said Tuesday.
Bouquets of flowers were laid in front of a sign that read, "As a community we grieve." It's the same message echoed by Half Moon Bay residents walking down Main Street on Tuesday, a day after the largest mass shooting in San Mateo County history.
California is reeling from a series of gun violence that has claimed 19 lives since Saturday at a ballroom, two farms, and a gas station.
Five educators are receiving the honor of being named the state's 2023 "teacher of the year." So what's their classroom secret?
"Nothing about this is surprising. Everything about this is infuriating," the California governor told Norah O'Donnell.
College wrestler got hit by a large wave on Thursday and pulled further from shore, police said.
In California, only about 230,000 homes and other buildings have flood insurance policies, which are separate from homeowners insurance. That means only about 2% of properties are covered against flooding. The federal government is the insurer for the bulk of them – about 191,000 as of December. Private insurers issued the rest, according to the most recent state data from 2021.
