The Las Vegas taxpayer subsidy to build a stadium for the National Football League Raiders works out to $354 per resident. The cost will be paid, according to projections, by increased tourist traffic that will drastically increase hotel occupancy and
After BlackBerry’s stock price fell from $230 in 2007 to $6 in early March, the company’s new strategy — dumping its hardware business and reinventing itself as the leading security software provider for self-driving vehicles — began to pay off handsomely.
A vote by congressional Republicans last week ended California Gov. Jerry Brown’s effort to force 6.8 million private sector workers into a “Secure Choice” public-run retirement plan.
The mosquitos that can carry the Zika virus have reportedly appeared in 129 California cities. With cold winter weather the only major obstacle to the Zika virus becoming America’s first pandemic since the 1957 Asian Flu, ground zero for a potential pandemic is now the West Coast.
In the first poll, after Gov. Jerry Brown’s asked the California Legislature to raise gas taxes and vehicle registration fees to spend $5.2 billion a year more on transportation, voters solidly oppose paying more taxes to pay for Caltrans bad decision making by 3 to 1.
Gov. Jerry Brown wants the Democrat-controlled state legislature to hike unpopular registration fees and fuel excise taxes by $5.2 billion a year to fix transportation over the next decade — after years of diverting $1.5 billion in transportation infrastructure taxes to subsidize California’s General Fund bond payments.
SpaceX completed a successful mission lift-off Thursday of a used Falcon 9 booster rocket, landing it successfully once again on a platform in the ocean.
A top Silicon Valley venture capitalist is backing a potentially disruptive revolution in huge drone seaplanes for cargo delivery.
A former Tesla employee has filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination and sexual harassment. Tesla blames the employee for being a potentially violent troublemaker.
China’s federal patent court overturned a ruling by the city of Beijing’s Intellectual Property Bureau regulator that had threatened to ban sales of the Apple iPhone for violating a bankrupt Chinese firm’s exterior design patents.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has warned that there is a high-risk of a mega-earthquake along Southern California’s Newport-Inglewood/Rose Canyon fault line could plunge a huge swath of Southern California’s coastal — and liberal — communities into the sea.
The Tesla Model 3 sedan is on track to introduce the world’s top safety features — if the company doesn’t collapse financially before many of the cars reach the market.
Uber has suspended its multi-state testing program for autonomous vehicles after one of its self-driving Volvos flipped up on its side after an accident.
California wins the booby prize as the worst state in the nation for spending money on infrastructure, according to the latest Visual Capitalist financial analysis.
With heavy rain and snow slamming into the Central Sierra Mountains, the spillway at Lake Davis overflowed for the first time in 21 years, re-igniting concerns about the downstream water level rising at Oroville Dam.
The water district that manages Silicon Valley’s 235-foot-high earthen Anderson Dam, which holds 29 billion gallons of water, has acknowledged that the dam’s embankments are seismically unstable and could catastrophically liquefy in a major earthquake.
Data from the U.S. Energy Information Agency suggest that the state could receive an extra $900 million in new hydro-electric revenue as a result of record California rain — and that the cash could pay for some of the damage to the Oroville Dam, the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and much of California’s key flood control infrastructure.
The U.S. Marines have started blowing up 10 dams in Orange County, in the midst of an ongoing rainy season, and despite President Trump’s executive order to curtail the Obama administration’s controversial “Waters of the U.S.” (WOTUS) regulation.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti declared an emergency on Monday, as a mass snowmelt in the Eastern Sierras threatens communities in the Owens Valley and along the 221-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct.
Trouble continues at Travis Kalanick’s Uber. Jeff Jones, who joined the ride-sharing company as its president just seven months ago, took the company’s swirling turmoil over allegations of sexual harassment, illegal activities and theft into overdrive by quitting and stating publicly that his “beliefs and approach to leadership” are inconsistent with Uber’s management.
Despite already dumping about $20 million of unwanted solar and wind power during fall and spring, when residential and commercial heating and cooling demands are low, California has mandated under law to quadruple sustainable energy production by 2030.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, declaring that globalization is “great for the world,” announced at the China Development Forum 2017 last week that the company will spend $507 million to open two additional research centers in the People’s Republic of China.
Although geeks have long merrily been celebrating Pi Day by dressing-up as ancient mathematicians, marching around in circles, and eating fruit pies since 1988, this year’s Silicon Valley festivities were hijacked to protest President Trump.
Former President Barack Obama tried to pay a quiet visit to Silicon Valley in the late afternoon on Sunday as a private citizen to meet with tech leaders, apparently to consider his future options.
The water storage at San Luis Reservoir (shown above in March 2016, mid-drought) jumped from just 10 percent of capacity in August to 100 percent last month. But none of the $7.5 billion from the Proposition 1 Water Bond passed by voters in 2014 has been spent to increase water storage by raising the height of the dam.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles just gave notice that it is moving to allow commercial operation of self-driving test vehicles that operate without stand-by drivers at the wheel.
The National Weather Service’s latest observation for the oscillation between years of El Niño versus Lina Nina weather patterns is currently neutral, but climate forecasters predict early signs of a strong El Niño could drench California again next year.
Just as Breitbart News predicted a little over a week ago, temperatures rising to the high 70s are causing an early spring snowmelt that is quickly filling Oroville Lake, causing the local sheriff to issue evacuation warnings for 11 areas downstream of the troubled Oroville Dam.
Farmers in the Central Valley know that it will take three to four years for water to permeate down to the underground aquifers and start raising the land again. But environmentalists warn of a crisis due to the Central Valley still sinking after this year’s heavy rains, due to the use of groundwater during the five-year drought.
Fitch Credit Ratings has declared that the profitable doubling of U.S. oil drilling over the last 9 months means the reemerging U.S. shale boom is a potent threat to Saudi Arabia — despite the Saudis declaring a price war in 2014.
Snapchat’s parent, Snap Inc., saw its stock jump by 60 percent in its first two days of trading, but has plunged by $14 billion since Friday’s close.
Santa Barbara has finally escaped being the last California community to suffer “extreme drought,” but it remains the poster child for blow-back from limiting water to limit growth.
The State of California reported that unemployment in Silicon Valley rose from 3.4 to 3.8 percent, as the area lost all 22,000 jobs gained in 2016 in a single month.
Los Angeles County supporters of Measure H announced they have received $3.5 million in contributions toward raising sales taxes on America’s poorest residents to pay for America’s largest homeless population.
In another sign of how Silicon Beach is winning the geek culture war with Silicon Valley, the Snap, Inc. stock price is up 60 percent in its second day of trading versus Facebook IPO shares price crashing by 47 percent in the first three months after their IPO.
In a rare display of Silicon Valley executives walking the plank for shareholders, Yahoo’s general counsel resigned and Chairman Marissa Mayer sacrificed two years of bonuses to close the company’s sale to Verizon.
Snapchat’s parent, Snap Inc., completed the largest initial public offering in the history of Los Angeles County by raising $3.4 billion in cash on a $24 billion market valuation of the Silicon Beach company on Wednesday.
A cannabis industry research and lobbying consultant is using Obama administration Department of Labor research to claim that legally supplying medical and recreational marijuana will lead American job growth, with a gain of 300,000 jobs over the next three years.
With the highly anticipated Snap, Inc. initial public offering (IPO) set to raise about $3.2 billion on March 1 by pricing shares at the high end of their expected range, a new report reveals that young social media consumers prefer Instagram, and millennial parents ages 45-to-54 are Snapchat’s only growth demographic.
California Department of Water Resources (DWR) engineers completely stopped the water flowing down Oroville Dam’s collapsing spillway on Monday in a desperate effort to clear intake pipes and restore hydro-electric production before flooding returns.
