A new California “split-roll” ballot initiative cranking up to qualify for the November 2018 elections would end Proposition 13 protection for commercial property owners as a first step to attacking all property taxpayer protections.
SpaceX’s mammoth 27-engine Falcon Heavy rocket flawlessly lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday and launched a small craft to Mars as a symbolic effort at interplanetary travel.
California’s flu pandemic has killed 127 humans already this winter, and it is now rapidly spreading to dogs.
After years of financial losses, and months of unionization drama, Chicago-based Tronc is reported to be negotiating to sell the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune.
California’s zero-emission-vehicle registrations jumped 29 percent last year, powered by government subsidies, but a lack of standardized charging stations will make future growth more expensive.
An East Bay Area car burglary gang that is believed to have stolen thousands of electronic devices was caught with 900 laptops headed for the Port of Oakland for shipment to Vietnam. The Bay Area has suffered a 35 percent
Stanford University researchers have reported 97 percent laboratory success eliminating metastasized tumors in mice by injecting vaccines directly into tumors to activate T cells.
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is starting to use commercially available facile recognition software to confirm the identity of international travelers and drastically speed up the check-in process.
Punxsutawney Pete saw his shadow Friday morning and predicted six more weeks of bitter snow and cold in the East, but corresponding sunny warmth and drought in California.
The California legislature’s Democrats and Republicans voted unanimously on Tuesday to have the budget-busting High-Speed Rail Authority subjected to a nonpartisan review by State Auditor Elaine Howle.
Silicon Valley’s Udelv made history by piloting the first driverless retail grocery delivery service in America on Jan. 30.
California marijuana retailers will be toting huge amounts of cash to the Franchise Tax Board and the IRS, as pot still is too illegal for banks to inhale.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has announced the pre-launch availability of its $500 flamethrowers, which are “Guaranteed to liven up any party!”
The California Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) cost estimates for the Oroville Dam crisis and repair have spiked to $870 million, after an independent forensic report blamed the state for misleading the public about its knowledge of dangerous conditions.
A story by Southern California Public Radio station KPCC last week appeared to admit that President Donald Trump’s $1.5 billion tax reform is best for middle and lower income households.
An Orange County jury awarded the Grumpy Cat $710,001 in damages this week after a beverage company allegedly failed to honor the kitty with the infamous sourpuss image.
The California Department of Water Resources hopes to learn from how Cape Town, South Africa, copes with running out of water in the next 90 days.
Orange County officials have begun removing the thousands of homeless people that now line the 35-mile stretch of the Santa Ana River from Prado Dam to the ocean.
California’s reported deaths from the ongoing influenza epidemic jumped over 50 percent, from 15 for the first week of 2018 to 32 for the second week of 2018.
Southern California port workers who once went on strike while making $1,200 per day are seeing their jobs automated in the fight against climate change.
Top tech venture capitalist Sir Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital caused a stir last week by claiming that American tech workers in Silicon Valley are lazy compared to tech workers in China. Sequoia is one of the oldest and highest performing Silicon Valley start-up
California’s Democrat-controlled Legislature is moving forward with putting constitutional amendment on June ballot to double the corporate tax rate.
Eighty-five percent of the LA Times newsroom employees voted for the first time in 136 years to unionize under the Commercial Workers of America.
A bill has been introduced in the California legislature to dump the infamous “space tax” that extended the state’s revenue collection frontier to 62 miles above the Earth.
The cost to build the first 119 miles of California’s high-speed rail project across flat ground in the Central Valley has spiked to $89.1 million per mile.
The City of Oroville will file the first of what could be hundreds of lawsuits against the State of California for allegedly lying about known dangerous conditions at Oroville Dam.
The State of California is leading 20 other states — and defending Silicon Valley’s interests — by suing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to stop its decision to repeal Net Neutrality rules.
Democrats fear the Trump Administration’s re-reinstatement of citizenship questions on the 2020 U.S. Census will cost California a Congressional seat and billions in funding.
Gov. Jerry Brown is blaming California’s coming insolvency on Proposition 13, which was passed in response to his first term policies in the late 1970s.
The Trump Interior Department’s plan to sell offshore oil and gas drilling rights is an effort to make California pay for being the largest state beneficiary of federal spending.
California reported deaths from the flu epidemic jumped by 50 percent from 10 for the last week of 2017 to 15 for the first week of 2018.
The Public Utility Commission announced an agreement Thursday with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to close California’s last nuclear power plant reactors at Diablo Canyon by 2025.
California Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed a $190.3 billion budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year, beginning July 1 — which the state’s Democrat-controlled legislature intends to bust.
Arnold Schwarzenegger joined the “New Way California” initiative this week, in the hope of creating a competitive California Republican Party by triangulating toward Democrat priorities.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra threatened to file his 25th lawsuit against the Trump administration for the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to follow federal laws on marijuana enforcement.
California’s new regulations and taxes for recreational marijuana, legal as of January 1, are a threat to the Emerald Triangle cultivators and dealers who have dominated marijuana for almost five decades.
The State of California is reporting that the deadly 2017-2018 flu epidemic is running at 300 percent above average for the last five years.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ reversing Obama’s ban on enforcing cannabis laws, makes California state and local marijuana regulatory data a prosecutorial roadmap.
CNN’s Brian Stelter asked Twitter on Tuesday whether President Donald Trump’s tweet threatening North Korea with his “much bigger & more powerful” nuclear button violated the social media network’s terms of service.
California’s Democrat-controlled state government wants to re-classify state taxes as charitable contributions to avoid the new $10,000 cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions in President Donald Trump’s new tax reform.
