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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco says deputies won’t conduct immigration enforcement

Riverside County deputies will not perform “any type of immigration enforcement,” Sheriff Chad Bianco said, as fear among local immigrant communities has increased due...

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’...

Republican bill would ban transgender girls from high school sports in California

By Hailey Branson-Potts | Staff Writer  On the first day of the California Legislature’s new session, Assemblymember Kate Sanchez, an Orange County Republican, introduced a bill that would...

As wildfires rage in Los Angeles, Trump doesn’t offer much sympathy. He’s casting blame

As cataclysmic wildfires rage across Los Angeles, President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t been offering much sympathy. Instead, he’s claiming he could do a better job managing the...

California Laws That Go Into Effect on Jan. 1

Harsher penalties for serial shoplifters. A framework for Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes. New safeguards against artificial intelligence deepfakes. The California Legislature passed hundreds of bills in...

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