In some areas, hazards have surged. Buildings in the highest hazard zones will be subject to the strictest fire-resiliency rules.
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About a quarter — 25.3% — of all new cars registered in California in 2024 were electric cars, compared with 25% in 2023. The flat sales follow several years of rapid growth, and sales are still far below the state’s 35% target.
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Shasta County supervisors voted Tuesday to hire a new health care consultant to help address the shortage of providers in the county. But the person they chose has a controversial history.
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Some students work multiple jobs and give up extracurricular activities to supplement their financial aid. Many say it’s worth it.
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The Trump administration cleared the way for immigration enforcement officers to enter schools in its first week. Now, California lawmakers are working on new state-level restrictions to prevent that.
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Political committees now have state regulators’ OK to create an unlimited number of affiliated committees with different leaders, and then closely coordinate fundraising and candidate donations among them.
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Public utilities can bill directly for hundreds of millions of dollars in shareholder returns despite being in what critics call a lower-risk business.
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Energy demands from big tech, including for AI, has elected officials giving an old power source a second look.
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A recent decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals allows Humboldt residents to fight against county cannabis fines they claim are unconstitutional.
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Scrambling to respond to the Trump administration’s late Monday night directive to pause a wide, but as-yet-unspecified, swath of federal spending programs, California’s Democratic elected officials and agency heads offered two consistent responses today:
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One of President Trump’s first executive orders threatened to withhold federal funding from so-called sanctuary jurisdictions. California is one of them.
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President “Trump had a particularly significant impact on the 9th Circuit” in his first term, moving the reliably liberal appeals court to the right. That could influence abortion policy in the West.
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California passed a set of bills to expedite LA wildfire recovery funds as part of an extended special session called by Gov. Gavin Newsom in response to Palisades and Eaton fires.
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Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, has hit a record 1.8 million enrollees and the number could climb higher ahead of a Jan. 31 open enrollment deadline, due in large part to enhanced subsidies that have made plans more affordable.
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The president excluded Gov. Newsom from plans for his visit to fire-ravaged Los Angeles today, but the governor showed up on the tarmac anyway, and the two said they would cooperate. Trump’s growing list of demands — and threats to block federal aid — won’t make that easy.