Growing Number Believe California's Drought Is A Government Conspiracy
The movement's leader, Dane Wigington, says he's putting his life on the line to reveal a truth that will shake society to its core.
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The movement's leader, Dane Wigington, says he's putting his life on the line to reveal a truth that will shake society to its core.
The fire, which killed at least two people, was 65 percent contained but still threatening another 6,400 structures.
The inmates say new welfare checks at Pelican Bay State Prison's notorious security housing unit are keeping them up nights because noise caused by guards rouses them every half-hour around the clock.
A research firm says California's summer housing rally cooled in August as tight supplies kept a lid on sales and some buyers found prices out of reach.
Sonar at a great distance can disrupt feeding and communication of marine mammals, and it can cause deafness or death at a closer distance, Henkin said.
The initiative submitted to the California Attorney General's office calls for a 1,000 percent sales tax on all political advertisements in the state of California. At that rate, every $100 spent on an ad would generate $1,000 for schools.
Santa Clara County prosecutors allege in complaint filed Tuesday that the three assaulted inmate Juan Villa shortly before attacking 31-year-old Michael Tyree on Aug. 26.
A vast and stubborn wildfire that has proven California's biggest this year was expected to spew smoke through the long Labor Day weekend, leaving some campgrounds empty and prompting health warnings.
DroughtRelief.org is hoping to serve between 25 and 50 families through its campaign, but those who need the water have to meet an income requirement.
Sugar Pine was launched in the early 1990s and holds junior water rights, which have been curtailed in 2014 and 2015 because of the drought.
Lawmakers argued that the charge does not cover administrative costs and could encourage people to file frivolous ballot questions.
The University of California and California State University systems say their policies already permit punishing students for off-campus sexual assaults.
California agreed Tuesday to end its unlimited isolation of imprisoned gang leaders, restricting a practice that once kept hundreds of inmates in notorious segregation units for a decade or longer.
The Assembly on Monday voted 57-11 on SB539 by Democratic Sen. Steve Glazer of Orinda.
No one would argue that California's death penalty provides swift justice.
The bill by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, would let female employees challenge pay discrimination based on the wages that the company pays to other employees at different locations.
The county says it started noticing the people running out of water weren't using the water for farms, they were using it for their homes.
Auditors say the deal wasted $3.2 million the contractor received just to process invoices from a subcontractor that did the actual work.
SB716 by Democratic Sen. Ricardo Lara of Bell Gardens would make California the first state in the nation to protect elephants against bullhooks starting in 2018.
Some of the funds never reach the intended charities and go back into state coffers after taxpayers check a box on their taxes to contribute, as good intentions meet a lengthy bureaucratic maze.
The Assembly voted 43-11 on a bill by Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara. Her bill creates a trespass crime for operating a drone less than 350 feet above ground over private property without consent.
"This creep next to me was groping me, my boobs and butt!" she wrote. "He had a full-on grip and then I woke up and he wouldn't let go of me."
Vineyards bustled with workers across Amador County on Friday as many scrambled to harvest grapes that were ready weeks before they should be.
Wildlife experts say the wolves pose very little threat to humans, but the sighting is creating a buzz about the return of the animals missing for nearly a century.
The U.S. Forest Service blames California's four-year drought for a number of dead trees. Firefighters go through intense training to deal with the dead trees.
