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One reason your power bill is high: Baked-in profits that critics call excessive

Making sense of the alphabet soup of charges on a monthly power bill is challenge enough. But there’s a surprising cost baked into customers’...

California’s surge in EV sales has stalled — so what happens to its landmark mandate?

California’s push to electrify its cars is facing a potentially serious problem: People aren’t buying electric cars fast enough.  After three straight years of strong...

Online censorship in schools is ‘more pervasive’ than expected, new data shows

By Tara García Mathewson Aleeza Siddique, 15, was in a Spanish class earlier this year in her Northern California high school whaen a lesson about newscasts...

Fact check: Did Gavin Newsom really help create 625,000 new job opportunities in California?

By Adam Echelman As a gubernatorial candidate in 2018, Gov. Gavin Newsom made a pledge to create 500,000 new apprenticeships in the decade after taking office,...

Gavin Newsom has grown California’s government to a record size. Now he, too, is selling ‘efficiency’

It’s not only Washington, D.C., where “efficiency” has become the buzzword du jour. With California facing an uncertain fiscal future, Gov. Gavin Newsom made his own...

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Trial Ordered For 20-Year-Old Man Charged With Murder In Jurupa Valley DUI Death

A 20-year-old man accused of driving under the influence...

Case of shooting at Rihanna’s home clouded by concerns over accused woman’s mental health

The Florida woman who allegedly raked Rihanna’s West L.A. home...

Vance says $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California will be deferred over fraud concerns

Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that the Trump...

Hemet Harmoneers Chorale to Present ‘Hope in a Calling’ Spring Concert

HEMET, Calif. — The Harmoneers Chorale of Hemet is...