By ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Soaring inflation will trigger an automatic increase in California’s minimum wage next year, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced Thursday. The minimum wage will jump to $15.50 per hour on Jan. 1, the highest of any state. That’s an increase from $15 per hour for companies with more than
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By BRIAN MELLEY LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday that California’s ban on the sale of semiautomatic weapons to adults under 21 is unconstitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday the law violates the 2nd Amendment right to bear
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There are changes underway at the Palm Springs International Airport, and officials say they are possible because of federal funding. Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz toured the airport with PSP executive director Harry Barrett and Palm Springs Councilmember Dennis Woods. They talked about improvements to be made at the airport with the $17.2 million in federal
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California measure that would allow children age 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent, including against the coronavirus, cleared its first legislative hurdle Thursday. If the proposal becomes law, California would allow the youngest age group of any state to be vaccinated without parental permission. Minors age
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By DON THOMPSON SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California, which has a economy larger than all but four countries and where much of the world’s technological innovation is born, on Wednesday became the first state to formally begin examining how to broadly adapt to cryptocurrency and related innovations. Following a path laid out by President Joe
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Leaders throughout California are reacting to the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court could follow through on overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. A draft opinion circulated among Supreme Court justices suggests that earlier this year a majority of them had thrown support behind overturning the 1973 case Roe
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities recovered the body of a hiker a day after people reported hearing someone yelling for help near a mountain trail in Southern California. The family of Robert Carey Jr. reported Saturday that he had not returned from a hike to San Gorgonio Mountain in the San Bernardino National Forest.
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By ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California voters could get a chance to add abortion protections to the state’s constitution this fall. Gov. Gavin Newsom and top legislative leaders committed Monday to putting an amendment on the November ballot that would “enshrine the right to choose” in California. Their comments came hours after Politico
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By ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s population shrank for the second year in a row in 2021 as the nation’s most populous state was hit by declining birth rates, higher deaths from the pandemic and fewer people moving into the state from elsewhere in the U.S., officials said Monday. California lost 117,552 people
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By DON THOMPSON SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California workplace regulators on Thursday extended mandatory pay for workers affected by the coronavirus through the end of 2022, acting more than two months after state lawmakers restored similar benefits through September. The decision again pitted management against labor as the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board renewed
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California state lawyer has resigned over what she alleged were undue attempts by Gov. Gavin Newsom and his office to interfere in a state lawsuit against video game giant Activision Blizzard. Bloomberg reported Melanie Proctor, assistant chief counsel with California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing, told staff in a Tuesday
Continue Reading By DON THOMPSON SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Stung by a deadly mass shooting Sunday mere blocks from the state Capitol, California lawmakers on Tuesday advanced an innovative new approach to gun control that would empower private citizens to sue those who traffic in illegal weapons. California already has some of the nation’s strictest firearms rules,
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By ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Tens of thousands of Californians facing eviction on Friday for not paying their rent will get to stay in their homes for at least another three months after Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis signed a law to extend protections just hours before they were scheduled to expire. California will
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Enlisted members of the military would get an automatic 30-day cooling off period in California when they buy or lease vehicles, under a proposal backed Tuesday by the state’s attorney general and leader of the state Senate. They argued that those individuals are often the targets of predatory auto sales practices.
Continue Reading California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations voted Tuesday to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century, narrowly rejecting a proposal to include all Black people. The vote was split 5-4 with some members pleading with the commission to move ahead with
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A San Diego appellate judge was sworn in today to become the first Latina to serve on the California Supreme Court. Patricia Guerrero’s appointment to the state’s highest court was confirmed through a unanimous vote last week by the Commission on Judicial Appointments. She will fill the vacancy left by Associate Justice Mariano- Florentino Cuéllar,
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LAGUNITAS, Calif. (AP) — A small fire has destroyed an ancient coastal redwood trees at a Northern California park. The roughly 200-foot-tall (60 meters) redwood known as the Pioneer Tree fell after being engulfed in flames midday Thursday, California State Parks said in a statement. It was one of the few remaining old-growth coastal redwood tree at
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians who own cars could get up to $800 from the state to help offset record-high gas prices under a proposal announced Wednesday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Registered owners would get $400 per vehicle, capped at two vehicles. People who own electric vehicles or others that don’t use gasoline would
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The Long Beach-based California State University system will abandon the use of SAT and ACT tests in its admission process, permanently adopting a policy today that was implemented on a temporary basis during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CSU Board of Trustees voted unanimously Wednesday to scrap the use of the standardized tests in admissions decisions,
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife earned nearly $1.5 million in 2020 and paid about $480,000 in taxes, down from $1.7 million in income the couple reported in 2019 in his first year as governor, records released Tuesday showed. The couple’s joint federal tax return showed they paid a tax
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