Tag: California state government
Milkweed planted in California to help monarch butterflies
SAN FRANCISCO — A conservation group is planting more than 30,000 milkweed plants in California in the hope of giving Western monarch butterflies new...
California eyes shuttered malls, stores for new housing
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California state lawmakers are grappling with a particularly 21st-century problem: What to do with the growing number of shopping malls and...
Probe ordered on California death row inmate innocence claim
LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday ordered an independent investigation into the conviction of death row inmate Kevin Cooper, who says he...
Sports betting initiative qualifies for California ballot
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An initiative to allow sports betting at tribal casinos and horse-racing tracks in California has qualified for the November 2022 ballot.
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As drought intensifies, California seeing more wildfires
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As California sinks deeper into drought it already has had more than 900 additional wildfires than at this point in 2020,...
California says $5 million Ponzi scam bilked older Filipinos
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's attorney general on Friday charged 15 people with conspiring to defraud mostly elderly victims of Filipino descent out of a...
California places Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ under review
LOS ANGELES — California's Department of Motor Vehicles is reviewing whether Tesla is violating a state regulation by advertising its vehicles as being fully...
Newsom’s spending binge reshapes California recall election
LOS ANGELES — A fading coronavirus crisis and an astounding windfall of tax dollars have reshuffled California’s emerging recall election, allowing Democratic Gov. Gavin...
Severe drought crisis deepens along Oregon-California border
PORTLAND, Ore. — The water crisis along the California-Oregon border went from dire to catastrophic this week as federal regulators shut off irrigation water...
California governor to reveal booming budget proposal
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It was one year ago that a solemn Gov. Gavin Newsom walked onto a podium in California's capital city, removed his...