Tag: California

Crews battling the largest wildfire so far this year in California braced for thunderstorms and hot, windy conditions that created the potential for additional fire growth Sunday as they sought to protect remote communities.

A San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy was hospitalized after being shot while investigating reports of a suspicious vehicle early Sunday, authorities said.

The California Fee-to-Trust Consortium is a workgroup of California Tribes and Bureau of Indian Affairs personnel who, in 1998, began work to streamline the process by which Tribes can secure landholdings that are protected by trust status.

Gun makers and dealers in California will be required to block firearms sales to anyone they have “reasonable cause to believe is at substantial risk” of using a gun illegally or of harming themselves or others, under a new law that Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that he had signed.

Taking new steps to further hold the gun industry accountable, Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday allowing the state, local governments and Californians to sue gun makers.