California Ban On Gay Change Therapy Faces 1st Legal Test
A federal judge is considering whether to block a first-of-its kind California law that prohibits licensed therapists from counseling gay minors on how to become straight.
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A federal judge is considering whether to block a first-of-its kind California law that prohibits licensed therapists from counseling gay minors on how to become straight.
Many Anthem Blue Cross customers could see their rates jump an average of 18 percent in February, under a proposal by the state's largest for-profit health insurer. Other insurers are also proposing rate hikes.
A report by the California Attorney General's office finds only 51 percent of the donations collected by professional fundraisers winds up in the hands of the charity soliciting contributions.
The Amgen Tour of California will take a new approach as it will start south and take cyclists northward up to Santa Rosa in 2013, for the first time of the race's history.
Officials are spending $54 million to build the West Coast's first harbor able to withstand the kind of tsunami expected to hit once every 50 years - the same kind that hit in 2011.
Some turkeys in Marin County don't have to be worried about their fate on Thanksgiving Day, but area residents would be thankful if the turkeys weren't causing so much trouble.
More than half a million Californians who are covered by Anthem Blue Cross could see a massive rate hike early next year.
The sale of California's first pollution permits will generate less money than expected for the state budget.
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State regulators say California's first auction of greenhouse gas emissions permits went smoothly, and all of the pollution permits available for 2013 were sold.
The humane society says a landmark $500 million settlement has been reached in a slaughterhouse abuse case that led to the biggest meat recall in U.S. history in 2008.
The state Employment Development Department reported the rate was 10.1 percent in October, down from 10.2 percent a month earlier.
California's new system for limiting industrial greenhouse gas emissions by putting a price on carbon is not likely to spur a similar federal program anytime soon, but it might influence other states to follow suit.
State fitness tests administered to California's school-age children shows fewer than a third of tested students were in good physical shape.
The nonpartisan legislative analyst says California is facing a much smaller deficit of $1.9 billion through the end of the next fiscal year and could even see surpluses over the next few years.
California has begun auctioning permits for greenhouse gas emissions, launching what is expected to be the world's second-largest carbon market.
A prankster is changing the message on an electronic traffic warning sign in a Northern California town.
California's largest business group filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the validity of the state's cap-and-trade program on the eve of the first pollution permit auction.
Thousands of military homes in southern New Mexico and West Texas will be fitted with solar panels as part of a $1 billion plan by a California company to bring solar to military installations across the country.
California's largest greenhouse gas emitters will begin buying permits in a landmark "cap-and-trade" system designed to control emissions of heat-trapping gases and to spur investment in clean technologies.
With the passage of Proposition 36 on Election Day, California's "Three Strikes" law could change the fates of thousands of state inmates, and now Santa Clara county is making plans for the transition.
Activists seeking special labels on food made from genetically engineered crops vowed Wednesday to continue their push despite a loss at the California ballot box.
Democrats gained a two-thirds majority in the California Senate following Tuesday's election, bringing them close to the ability to pass tax increases without the need for Republican votes.
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Guatemala on Wednesday, killing at least 48 people as it ravaged an idyllic mountain town near the Mexican border, the country's president said. About 100 people were missing, and hundreds more were injured.
CCalifornia voters have approved Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to raise income taxes on the wealthy and raise the statewide sales tax to fund education and help balance the state budget.
