Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from California

House Democrats buttoning up budget votes as they await Senate

The House will return the second week of August to take up the reconciliation bill if the Senate sends it by then, says Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Roll Call

Gavin Newsom Thinks California Is Freer Than Florida. Is He Crazy?

If Newsom wants to pick a fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, he should try a different topic.

Reason

California aims to make its own insulin brand to lower price

California plans to make its own insulin

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Editorial: Congress failed the nation on family policy. Will California show the way?

If he wanted to, California Gov. Gavin Newsom could run for reelection this year boasting that he enacted a suite of family-friendly policies that President Joe Biden has been unable to muster from Congress. It could also be a good campaign message if his speculated flirtation with running for the…

Los Angeles Times

Will UCLA and USC joining the Big Ten help recruiting? Big Ten players, coaches weigh in.

INDIANAPOLIS — Having devoured In-N-Out burgers, strolled the Santa Monica beach and enjoyed a visit to Little Ethiopia, Keeanu Benton gets the allure.

Los Angeles Times

Behind this locked door is the white abalone's best chance of avoiding extinction

Behind a black door and a sign that reads "Authorized Personnel Only" is a project that aims to bring the white abalone back from the brink of extinction.

WEKU

Brickbat: Adding It All Up

California lawmakers are considering a bill that would require any company with at least 250 employees to make public the pay of all of its employees in the state and to break it down by age, race and gender. Advocates say this will help address inequities they believe exist in…

Reason

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Smoke from California wildfires puts cats at risk of developing deadly blood clots

Dr. Ronald Li, a critical care veterinarian at UC Davis, treated 23 cats that were rescued from the devastating Tubbs fire that scorched Northern California for more than three weeks in October 2017. They had the kinds of traumatic injuries he expected to see: first- to third-degree burns, exposed skin…

Los Angeles Times

California man arrested for leaving puppy with mouth taped shut in hot car outside Las Vegas casino

A California man has been arrested in Las Vegas for leaving his puppy in a parked car outside of a casino in 113-degree heat for nearly two hours with its mouth taped shut, police said Thursday.

Los Angeles Times

San Francisco and New York state on emergency footing over monkeypox

California city’s mayor warns ‘We are at a very scary place’, while New York accounts for a quarter of US cases

The Guardian - US

Four dead and six injured in head-on collision in California

‘That stretch of highway has been notorious for decades,’ police chief says

The Independent UK

Serial sperm donor who fathered 49 kids reveals he's having first IVF baby

Kyle Gordy, from California, is expecting his 50th biological child while donating his sperm to IVF for the first time, after a woman approached him online hoping to have a baby next year

Daily Mirror

California's crack-of-dawn school ban could set a national trend

New York, New Jersey and more are also mulling later starts

Axios

‘Hunted’: one in three people killed by US police were fleeing, data reveals

In many cases, the encounters started as traffic stops or there were no allegations of violence or serious crimes

The Guardian - US

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: The drought is decimating my farm and many others. What California should do to help us

As I drive across my family’s farm in the San Joaquin Valley, it feels as if I’m traveling on a chessboard. I cross one square with crops and then another without crops — our fields that must lay fallow. Our farm’s crops have been decimated by the drought.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: The false promise of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE courts

It’s only natural to scour Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed CARE Courts plan for enough redeeming features to make it worthwhile. Californians are desperate for solutions to help people struggling with debilitating mental illness because the state has failed utterly to provide sufficient mental health care. Cities have tried criminalizing the…

Tribune News Service

Moving sea otters up the Northern California and Oregon coast — and maybe into San Francisco Bay — is feasible, federal government concludes

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Relocating sea otters to places in Northern California and Oregon where they haven’t lived for generations, including possibly using helicopter rides to move a few dozen from the Monterey Bay area into San Francisco Bay, is feasible and could help expand populations of the endangered marine…

Chicago Sun-Times

Federal bill to legalize marijuana would help, not hurt, the illicit market

California’s experience shows why burdensome taxes and regulations, as in Sen. Chuck Schumer’s proposed bill, would drive consumers away from the legal pot market.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Los Angeles Times

Northern California braces for extreme heat this week, with forecast highs up to 115

Temperatures in parts of Northern California could soar as high as 115 degrees this week as officials warn residents to prepare for excessive heat that could break records and pose significant danger.

Tribune News Service

After decades of failure, California dusts off controversial Delta tunnel water project

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Here we go again.

Los Angeles Times

California's strawberry fields may not be forever. Could robots help?

In a strawberry field surrounded by strawberry fields on the outskirts of Santa Maria, a pair of robots have been picking berries all summer.

The Guardian - US

Man dies after fight at California soccer game over refereeing decision

A 29-year-old man has died 15 days days after he was involved in a fight between two soccer teams in southern California

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Masking in public areas should be mandatory, even if California officials won’t make it so

The current COVID-19 surge has put Sacramento County in a precarious position. The highly transmissible and evasive BA.5 subvariant is getting little resistance from a population that has largely abandoned basic precautions like mask-wearing that limited its spread. While deaths and hospitalizations are lower thanks to the availability of vaccines…

Los Angeles Times

California used to pay people to hunt mountain lions. Now we spend millions to protect them.

LOS ANGELES — Whoever drove the car or truck that last week killed the mountain lion P-89 on the 101 Freeway in Woodland Hills — about 60 years ago, that driver would have been in line for a reward, a government atta-boy bounty of as much as $75 (more than…

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: California workers urgently need an $18 minimum wage. The Legislature should act this year

Californians may have gotten temporary relief recently when gas prices finally fell to about $6 a gallon this month, down from as high as $8 per gallon in June in Los Angeles County. Inflation has rocked the economy, with prices soaring 9.1% in June.

1 … 683 684 685 686

People

Jennifer Siebel Newsom

73 stories

Newsom

64 stories

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

National Wear Service

US Fish and Wildlife Service

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.