SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California said Friday it had recovered all of the 2.7 million jobs it lost at the start of the pandemic, a moment that normally would celebrate the end of a downturn but instead was tempered by signs of a wobbly economy amid layoffs in the state’s historically strong tech industry. The
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With COVID-19 infection rates sharply increasing since the beginning of November, Los Angeles County today returned to “strongly recommending” that people wear masks in all indoor public settings. The recommendation falls short of a masking mandate, but masks are still required indoors at health-care and congregate-care facilities, for anyone exposed to the virus in the
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Congresswoman Karen Bass has won a closely contested race to be Los Angeles’ next mayor and will be the first woman to lead the city, after today’s latest update showed her with an insurmountable lead of more than 46,500 votes over developer Rick Caruso. Caruso led the race slightly after Election Day, but Bass took
Continue Reading By ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will likely have a $25 billion budget deficit next year, state officials announced Wednesday, ending a run of historic surpluses and acting as a warning to other states about a potential recession. The deficit will likely lead to some painful spending decisions in the nation’s most populous
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WHITTIER, Calif. (AP) — A vehicle struck 22 Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruits on a training run around dawn Wednesday and five were critically injured, authorities said. A total of 23 people were injured, including the driver, said Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesperson Capt. Sheila Kelliher. In addition to the five who were critically
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thousands of academic workers walked picket lines again Tuesday at all 10 University of California campuses in a statewide strike calling for better pay and benefits. Contract talks produced “good progress” on Monday, the first day of the walkout, but then the university system informed the union that bargaining won’t resume
Continue ReadingBy Christian Balderas Click here for updates on this story SANTA CRUZ, California (KSBW) — Nearly 3,000 University of California, Santa Cruz workers were on strike as of Monday morning. They are joined on the picket lines by thousands of workers across the University of California system and union members say this is about unfair
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State health officials today confirmed California’s first death of a child under age 5 stemming from the flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. The California Department of Public Health declined to say where in the state the death occurred, citing privacy of the patient. “Our hearts go out to the family of this
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By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California ballot measure that would raise taxes on the richest residents to help put more electric vehicles on the roads was trailing Tuesday with about one-third of votes counted. Proposition 30 would place a new 1.75% tax on incomes above $2 million, which is estimated
Continue Reading Voters in the Southland and across California today strongly backed a ballot measure to formally establish a right to reproductive freedom, most notably the right to an abortion, in the state constitution. Proposition 1 was drafted by the state Legislature as a direct response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, which
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Competing measures to allow sports gambling in California looked like losing bets Tuesday after the most expensive ballot initiative campaign in U.S. history. A proposition that would allow online and mobile sports betting was failing by nearly a 3-to-1 margin in early returns and another measure that would allow sports wagering
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Californians on Tuesday voted to allow a law banning flavored tobacco products such as menthol cigarettes and strawberry gummy vaping juice to go into effect. With about a quarter of the ballots counted, Proposition 31 won handily with 76.3% of the vote. A campaign funded by tobacco giants, including R.J. Reynolds
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Democrat Gavin Newsom easily won a second term as California’s governor on Tuesday, beating a little-known Republican state senator by mostly ignoring him while campaigning against the policies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, two leading Republicans who like Newsom may run for president. It was the second decisive
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in California has won a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot after more than three months without anyone hitting the top prize. The California Lottery confirms the winning ticket was sold in Altadena, at Joe’s Service Center, making the single winner a billionaire. California Lottery
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By ADAM BEAM and JANIE HAR SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s plans to reduce the nation’s largest homeless population aren’t good enough, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday, prompting him to halt $1 billion in state spending for local governments as he seeks to reset the state’s strategy ahead of his expected second term in
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Delays in testing evidence from sexual assaults have been a lost opportunity for investigators and a source of frustration for victims for years, prompting California officials to announce Tuesday that they have created a way for survivors to track the progress of linking their rape kits with DNA evidence. California is
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A health emergency has been declared in Southern California’s Orange County due to rapidly spreading virus infections. The county health officer issued the declaration Monday due to record numbers of pediatric hospitalizations and daily emergency room visits, the OC Health Care Agency said in a press release. “Additionally, a Proclamation
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After another raucous start to its meeting, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-0 today to censure Councilmen Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo for their roles in the City Hall racism scandal — the first time the council has censured council members at least since the censure rules were last updated in 2000. The
Continue Reading The Los Angeles Police Department’s Major Crimes Division has opened an investigation into the leaked conversation that led to the City Hall racism scandal to determine if the conversation was recorded illegally, LAPD Chief Michel Moore said today. “The department has initiated a criminal investigation into an allegation of eavesdropping relative to the (Los Angeles
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The Coachella Valley Association of Governments, CVAG, announced Friday it’s been recommended to receive $36.483 million from the state’s competitive Active Transportation Program to build an extension of the CV Link through the cities of La Quinta, Indio and Coachella. The Arts and Music Line will reinvent how cyclists and pedestrians travel along Avenue 48, according to a CVAG news release
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