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‘Limited to no impact’: Why a pro-housing group says California’s pro-housing laws aren’t producing more

One California law was supposed to flip defunct strip malls across California into apartment-lined corridors. Another was designed to turn under-used church parking lots into...

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,...

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Riverside County man arrested for murder after welfare check leads to discovery of human remains

Will Conybeare | Contributed A man from Perris was arrested...

Drones pose increasing risk to airliners near major US airports

A commercial airliner was on final approach to San...

Trump administration reverses long-held guidance on ‘road diets’ for traffic safety

A stylist was just starting her shift at a...

Big Hearts for Little Hearts Desert Guild Reaches $1M Fundraising Goal

Big Hearts for Little Hearts Desert Guild announced Tuesday...