Fresno Unified school bus drivers, who have feared job loss for months, will finally get answers during an upcoming trustees meeting on Wednesday, April 23. The board agenda includes a contract with a new special education transportation service, Zūm Services Inc. Currently, the district contracts First Student Inc., which employs...
California Attorney General Declines to Join Musk’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The California attorney general's office declined to join a lawsuit by Elon Musk against OpenAI, the agency wrote in a letter made public on Tuesday, saying that the office did not see how Musk's action serves the public interest of the state. Musk, a co-founder of...
Trump Holds Situation Room Meeting on Iran, Officials Say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump met with his top national security aides on Tuesday to discuss Iran's nuclear program ahead of a second meeting between U.S. and Iranian officials on Saturday, sources said. U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is to meet his Iranian counterpart on Saturday, a session currently scheduled...
KVPR Morning Show Host Is Named Station’s New Director of Radio
Elizabeth Arakelian, who has hosted KVPR's morning news show "Morning Edition" for the past two years, has been named the new director of radio, the station announced Tuesday. Arakelian will oversee KVPR's broadcast and digital radio programs and podcasts, and she will continue to host the station's local news podcast,...
Trump Signs Healthcare Executive Order That Includes a Win for Pharma Companies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump directed his health department on Tuesday to work with Congress on revamping a law that allows Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, seeking to introduce a change the pharmaceutical industry has lobbied for. Drugmakers have been pushing to delay the timeline under which...
Fresno Man Charged With Attempted Murder of City Worker
A Fresno man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly attacking a city employee with a blunt object while the victim was on the job, the Fresno County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. Dyllan James Padavona, also known as Dyllan James Hopkins, 30, is accused of striking...
US Tariffs May Cost Chip Equipment Makers More Than $1 Billion, Industry Estimates
U.S. President Donald Trump's new tariffs could cost U.S. semiconductor equipment makers more than $1 billion a year, according to industry calculations discussed with officials and lawmakers in Washington last week, two sources familiar with the matter said. Each of the three largest U.S. chip equipment makers - Applied Materials,...
NAACP Sues US Education Department Over DEI School Funding Cuts
(Reuters) - The NAACP sued the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday to stop its alleged illegal effort to cut off funding to schools that use diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and prevent Black students from receiving equal education opportunities. In a complaint filed in Washington, D.C., the largest U.S....
Oil Company Fined Record $18 Million for Defying CA Orders to Stop Work on Pipeline
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The California Coastal Commission fined an oil company a record $18 million last week for repeatedly defying orders to stop work on a corroded pipeline in Santa Barbara County that caused a major oil spill nearly a decade...
Why Is It So Expensive to Build Affordable Homes in CA? It Takes Too Long
This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The spiraling cost of housing in California has affected virtually every facet of life. California has the nation’s largest unsheltered homeless population and among the highest rates of cost-burdened renters and overcrowded homes. One reason for the seemingly...