The Latest Breaking News from California

LOS ANGELES — It was a nightmare fire season that California won’t soon forget.

According to the most recent campaign finance reports filed with the California Secretary of State, California Attorney General Rob Bonta has raised $8.7 million and spent $8.6 million between Jan. 1, 2021, and May 21, 2022. Bonta is currently ranked fourth in state-level donations in the 2022 election cycle.

On June 8, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed two district court decisions dismissing challenges to California’s deduction of union dues from Medicaid payments to home care providers. The panel issued a single opinion after consolidating the two appeals. 

E-mobility company Lime is running tests for its new electric scooter, the Citra. It’s designed for longer distances as opposed to its fleet of standup scooters.

We test the 2022 Kawasaki Z650RS middleweight neo-retro on Los Angeles, California’s mean streets, speed-happy highways, and twisting canyon roads.

California-based e-bike company Mokwheel introduces the Basalt, the first e-bike that also doubles as a power station.

In many of the states with the nation’s most aggressive climate goals, officials are investing millions of dollars to save the power source that was long the No. 1 target of many environmental activists: nuclear plants.

SAN DIEGO — When Donegal Racing decided Belmont Stakes-winning jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. would receive a rare share of Mo Donegal's future work as a stallion, the ripples reached the shores of California.

A proposed bill would require cannabis products to carry large warnings, similar to cigarettes. But the state's legal pot industry says more rules make it harder to compete with the illicit market.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Politicizing is paying off. And hopefully we're headed for the slippery slope that gun lobbies long have dreaded.

Peter Navarro wasn't always a sad, whiny insurrectionist. There was a time the former White House trade adviser and Trump henchman was all bright, shiny promise.