The California Supreme Court ruled that the state’s “Mandatory Mediation and Conciliation” process, which allows state mediators to impose binding contracts between farmers and unions when negotiations break down, is constitutional.
Competition from Chinese fake trees is driving U.S. growers of real Christmas trees out of business and causing the prices for the shrinking supply of real trees to spike higher.
Booming marijuana cultivation that is tearing apart many Northern California communities is expected to go ballistic once the state legalizes recreational marijuana on January 1.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ended on a near-record 93-degree day the emergency snowpack flood risk he declared eight months ago. According to his website lamayor.org, “Mayor Garcetti introduced the pLAn in 2015 to guide Los Angeles toward an environmentally healthy,
Los Angeles International Airport temporarily lost its crown as the worst airport in America for delays on Thanksgiving to Denver International Airport, which suffered a complete travel meltdown this year.
Peter Thiel has sold three-quarters of the Facebook shares he picked as Mark Zuckerberg’s first venture capitalist, even as the Silicon Valley boycott against him intensifies.
Meg Whitman is leaving as Hewlett Packard CEO after a successful six-year turnaround, and seems ready to take on her next Silicon Valley Fortune 500 deal.
The combination of Mexican drug cartel super-labs increasing the purity of illegal drugs, and an ongoing prescription painkiller boom, is set to drive up overdose death rates in California.
Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel has finally cut ties with the Y Combinator investor fund, a year after being called a Silicon Valley traitor for his $1.25 million campaign contribution to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is incensed that President Donald Trump may be able to nominate and confirm 11 conservative federal California judges without her permission.
Elon Musk just disrupted the entire trucking industry with his autonomous 500-mile-per-charge Tesla Semi that might save drivers enough to buy the sexy 250 mph Roadster he unveiled with it.
Libertarian Internet pioneer Peter Thiel is not the only one concerned about the danger to freedom from tech monopolies like Google.
November 16 may go down in history as serial entrepreneur Elon Musk’s biggest day as he graces the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, manages SpaceX’s secret Zuma satellite launch, hosts the gala premier of the Tesla Semi heavy duty all-electric truck, all while responding to a Tesla racism lawsuit.
Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists are outraged that the U.S. Senate’s proposed tax reform makes employee stock option compensation less attractive and forces companies to pay employer taxes.
California Democrats could be in trouble in 2018, with the latest USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll finding registered voters’ top concerns are the traditionally Republican issues of high cost of living, jobs, taxes, and illegal immigrants.
Allegations that California State Senate Pro Tem leader Kevin de León tried to quash sexual harassment claims against his roommate may have upset an to dump 84-year-old U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
Tesla Inc. bought its automated machine tooling vendor after delays in its supposedly robotic Model 3 production line caused its stock to plunge by $15 billion in 6 weeks.
California Treasurer John Chiang wants to form a state-owned bank to service the coming legal marijuana boom that he expects to grow bigger and faster than the “Dot-Com boom.”
The U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found that California’s upward mobility has plunged to the point that over 50 percent of Millennial children will be poorer than their Baby-Boomer parents.
The explosive new “Paradise Papers” reveal that Apple, the world’s most profitable company, has been using a tax shelter scheme based in the Bailiwick of Jersey, a British dependency.
12 Democratic members of the California’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives have warned the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) that they may risk violating their fiduciary duty unless they divest themselves of assets associated with the President Trump.
Tom Steyer’s lawyers sent a breach of contract letter on Friday to Fox News Channel demanding that the network start running his ads urging viewers to sign an online petition telling Congress to impeach President Trump.
Despite Californians receiving one-fifth of all the benefits from the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, the state’s Republican congressional members seem unafraid to dump it.
The value of Tesla Inc. stock plunged by about $5.4 billion over a 48-hour period this week as the company declared a large quarterly loss and finally acknowleded that deliveries of its high-volume Model 3 will be delayed by at least 6 months.
Lame duck California Governor Jerry Brown jetted off in CO2-spewing jet planes for 14-days of galas across the European Continent and a stop in New York City to showcase his climate change credentials.
The Kiewit Corporation contractor poured the final smooth layer of cement on the Oroville Dam spillway chute Wednesday and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is set to certify that the massive repair job was completed by the November 1 deadline.
California is confident that draft regulations will be ready by the end of November to start the billion-dollar recreational marijuana tax bonanza on January 1.
Elon Musk tweeted an image of the first tunnel his Boring Company is drilling under Los Angeles to demonstrate his progress toward integrating Tesla, Hyperloop, the Gigafactory, and SpaceX. The ultimate goal: “Transportation-as-a-Service.”
Californians are bracing for the first phase of the SB-1 gas tax and vehicle registration hikes, which could help boost prices by up to 29 cents per gallon over the next 32 months.
President Trump’s started the 90-day clock that will give the FAA the right to set a national standard for pilot drone operations in all 50 states.
Union-led protests against Tesla’s firing of between 400 to 1000 manufacturing employees may impact a labor complaint filed by the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) against Tesla’s labor practices on August 31.
Spiking rents after the Wine Country fires could help Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom’s housing policies build support for his campaign for California governor.
Tesla’s recent announcement that it will be building a factory in China during the Communist Party’s once-every-five-years National Congress is a sign the company has become a partner with the world’s largest economy.
U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria denied a demand by California and 17 other states for a temporary restraining order to continue $600 million per month of Obamacare insurance company subsidies on Wednesday.
California’s September job growth saw government employment booming at an annualized rate of over 12 percent — and the private sector crawling at less than 2 percent.
The National Weather Service predicts a 55 to 65 percent chance of a La Niña this winter as cooling over the tropical Pacific and colder deep ocean waters is expected to cause a drier and warmer West Coast and a wetter and colder Mid-West and East Coast.
CalFire has officially named the Wine Country’s Tubbs Fire as the most destructive in California history, with the Nuns Fire and the Atlas Fire ranked as sixth and tenth worst fires.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra asked the U.S. Court of Appeals Court in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to grant an emergency restraining order to force the Trump administration to pay $600 million a month in Obamacare insurance subsidies that have previously been declared illegal.
A Santa Monica class action law firm filed the first of what will probably be hundreds of lawsuits blaming the Wine Country firestorms on Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E).
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) stock spiked up by 8.3 percent on Tuesday following a report that a suspected arsonist Jesus Fabian Gonzalez was arrested regarding at least one Wine Country fire.
