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Newsom, lawmakers want California Constitution to explicitly protect abortion rights

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a swift response to news that the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to overturn the nation's landmark abortion rights protections, Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announced Monday night they will ask voters in November to place permanent protections for the procedure in the California Constitution.

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George Skelton: It's time to stop spinning our wheels on gas price relief and head in a different direction

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislators have been spinning their wheels for months on gas price relief. They should get the vehicle moving or abandon it.

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Adults over 50 now qualify for Medi-Cal in California regardless of immigration status

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced that, beginning May 1, the state’s low-income health insurance would extend full coverage to all qualifying people who are 50 or older, regardless of immigration status.

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California visitors spent $100 billion last year. Here’s why state tourism still struggles

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California tourism is recovering slowly, but visitor spending still lags behind prepandemic records and most travel-related jobs slashed during COVID-19 have yet to return, according to a report from Visit California.

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Tech titans want the richest Californians to pay for pandemic preparedness

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gabe Bankman-Fried, a former Wall Street trader, has raised $12 million from a cryptocurrency trading firm founded by his brother, Sam Bankman-Fried. Dustin Moskovitz, a billionaire who roomed with Mark Zuckerberg in college and helped found Facebook in 2004, funds a nonprofit with his wife that has…

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Source: Kings inform candidates they have chosen finalists in coaching search

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Kings general manager Monte McNair and his staff have narrowed down their list of candidates as they prepare to move into the next phase of Sacramento’s coaching search.

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'Zoom-bombers' drop lewd video, racist comments at Sacramento candidate forum

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A virtual community forum for two candidates running for Sacramento City Council was disrupted Wednesday night in a "Zoom-bombing" incident when participants made racist, sexist and lewd comments, and displayed sexually explicit imagery.

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Bullet-train route OK’d from San Joaquin Valley to Bay Area. How are wildlife, farms affected?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A proposed route between the San Joaquin Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area for California’s bullet-train system received final approval Thursday from the California High Speed Rail Authority.

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Millions of Californians would get $200 cash rebates for soaring gas prices under Democrats' plan

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Millions of California families would receive cash rebates of $200 per person under a plan unveiled Thursday by state Senate Democrats, with additional boosts to those enrolled in government assistance programs and subsidies provided to small businesses that could be extended for a decade.

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Despite losing federal money, California is still testing uninsured residents for COVID — for now

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is still offering free COVID-19 testing to uninsured residents even though the federal government ran out of money to pay for it.

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California’s malpractice payouts would rise under a deal to avoid a costly ballot fight

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Cash payments in California medical malpractice cases would go up for the first time in nearly five decades under a deal between rival interest groups announced Wednesday that avoids a costly battle at the ballot box in November.

Los Angeles Times

Any effort to limit California offshore oil could be costly to taxpayers

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An ambitious legislative effort to shut down three offshore oil rigs along the Orange County coast, where beaches and fragile wetlands were soiled after a major spill in October, could be hobbled by concerns over the eventual cost to California taxpayers.

Los Angeles Times

Newsom's 'CARE Court' homelessness plan faces new questions before first hearing

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Battle lines have emerged in the debate over Gov. Gavin Newsom's far-reaching and controversial effort to provide court-ordered treatment for homeless individuals with severe mental illness, with Democrats and local government officials divided as the plan faces its first public hearing Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times

California's biggest election this year could be the race for attorney general

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The most contentious and closely watched California election in 2022 is likely to be the race for attorney general, where voters will choose in June from the liberal incumbent who was appointed to the job last year, three unheralded challengers and an openly gay career prosecutor whose…

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California mental health court won't help homeless, advocates say

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a plan to create a civil court system to compel treatment for people suffering from serious untreated mental illness, saying it's time for the state to "take some damn responsibility to implement our ideals."

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Sierra Club asks Sacramento County to move homeless, citing tripling of American River fires

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sierra Club's Sacramento chapter is asking city and county officials to move hundreds of homeless residents along the American River Parkway into shelters and safe ground spaces, citing an increase in wildfires it says are often tied to homeless camps.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Miss a traffic ticket deadline, add $300. Guess who this affects the most

Here’s something you might find surprising. Despite two years of pandemic-related anxieties, California is now so awash in money that politicians in Sacramento are debating how to spend tens of billions of surplus dollars.

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Gilroy Garlic Festival canceled indefinitely, marking an end to a California summer tradition

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Gilroy Garlic Festival Association announced Thursday it will no longer be hosting its annual food festival that celebrates the locally grown crop, putting an end to the 42-year-old summer tradition.

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California is swimming in tax revenue. Sacramento mayor wants to use more for homelessness

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two years ago, Owen Newman Jr. was sleeping outdoors and bouncing around North Highlands, Del Paso Heights and south Sacramento.

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Arraignment delayed for Smiley Martin, suspect in deadly Sacramento gang shooting

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A suspect in the April 6 deadly shooting in downtown Sacramento made his first appearance in court Friday after being hospitalized for injuries incurred in the melee.

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Sacramento mass shooting suspect appears in court

Prosecutors say an alleged gang member fired at least 28 bullets in a mass shooting in California's capital city

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Sherri Papini’s husband files for divorce after she pleads guilty to hoax

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Keith Papini, who loyally stood by his wife’s side for six years as Sherri Papini maintained she had been kidnapped, filed for divorce Wednesday, two days after she pleaded guilty to charges that the whole thing was a hoax.

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PG&E wildfire victim trust lobbies Newsom, California lawmakers for $1.5 billion state loan

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The multibillion-dollar trust fund responsible for paying PG&E Corp. wildfire victims is lobbying Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature for a loan.

Los Angeles Times

Opposition mounts against Newsom's plan for court-ordered treatment of homeless people

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Six weeks after California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a far-reaching effort to push more people into court-ordered treatment for severe mental illness and addiction, homeless advocates are calling it legally misguided and immoral as the proposal's first public hearing at the state Capitol has been delayed.

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Sherri Papini pleads guilty in faked kidnapping, awaits sentencing in Sacramento court

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An emotional Sherri Papini formally admitted Monday that she made up her 2016 “kidnapping” from Redding, pleading guilty in federal court in Sacramento to a count of making false statements to a federal agent and mail fraud, part of a plea agreement she worked out after her…

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