Tag: California
Riverside County’s unemployment rate rises a notch
Minor ripples in the regional economy pushed Riverside County’s unemployment rate up slightly last month, state officials said recently.The jobless rate in October, based...
Rep. Raul Ruiz tells story of local teen critically injured by vaping, fights for...
WASHINGTON – Democrat Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D., of California spoke Wednesday, Nov. 13, on the nationwide youth vaping epidemic. Recently in Desert Hot Springs, Zane...
Documents reveal sexual abuse at California women’s prisons
JULIE SMALLÂ
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A state prison inmate incarcerated at the Central California Women’s Facility was awaiting her group therapy session on...
Maya Angelou, RuPaul among California Hall of Fame class
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Author Maya Angelou and performer RuPaul are among the inductees for the next class of California Hall of Fame.
Gov. Gavin Newsom...
University of California, researchers reach contract deal
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California has reached a tentative contract agreement with the union representing about 4,000 academic researchers, giving them...
Trump threatens to cut US funding for California wildfires
CHRISTOPHER WEBER
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to cut U.S. funding to California for aid during wildfires that...
Local cities rank high in safety, according to SafeWise list
According to SafeWise, an independent review site, the city of Murrieta ranks as the fifth safest city in the state of California, falling in...
Crews battle California blazes before windstorms return
STEFANIE DAZIO and BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Crews fought Tuesday to drown, slash and smother wildfires that have incinerated dozens of...
California governor “owns” blackouts, takes political risk
KATHLEEN RONAYNE
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO — With hundreds of thousands of Californians again in the dark amid high wildfire danger Thursday, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom...
Bones may be remains of lost Japanese internee
BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
SANTA MONICA (AP) — A skeleton recently found on California's second-highest mountain could be the remains of a Japanese-American man who...