California's two most recent former governors will visit Clovis on Thursday to celebrate a milestone in solar panel installation. Listen to this article: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown will appear at an event hosted by a coalition of solar power advocates to celebrate the one millionth solar roof installation since...
Fresno Bishop: AG's Review of Sexual Abuse by Priests 'Welcomed'
Fresno is among six Catholic dioceses expecting to be subpoenaed by the state attorney general as part of a probe into whether they've properly handled sexual abuse allegations against priests. All of the dioceses have been providing documents since May, church spokesman Kevin Eckery said Tuesday. Listen to this article:...
California Fines CVS $3.6 Million for Failing to Recycle
SACRAMENTO — California is fining the nation's largest pharmacy health care provider a record $3.6 million for failing to redeem deposits on bottles and cans at some of its locations, regulators said Monday. The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, better known as CalRecycle, said its investigation found that...
Opponents Drop Bid to Block California Vaccination Law
SACRAMENTO — Opponents on Monday dropped their attempt to block California’s new law cracking down on doctors who write fraudulent medical exemptions for school children's vaccinations. They had floated two measures that could have put the Jan. 1 law on hold until voters considered overturning it next year, but did...
San Diego Man Simulated Mass Shooting. Pleads Not Guilty to Charges.
SAN DIEGO — A 30-year old man from the San Diego area pleaded not guilty Monday to weapons and child abuse charges after online videos appeared to show him pointing an assault rifle and rehearsing a mass shooting from a downtown hotel room. Steve Homoki was arrested Thursday with 14...
California Feud With Trump Could Impact Budget Surplus
SACRAMENTO — California is bracing for a much smaller budget surplus next year because of its ongoing feud with the Trump administration about a tax involving Medicaid, the state's chief budget writer said Monday. California is projected to have a $7 billion surplus, with $3 billion of it available to...
Walters: ‘Tax Exhaustion’ May Be on the Horizon
California’s local governments — cities especially — and school districts have been packing ballots with tax increase measures in recent years and another batch is on tap for next year. Voters have, more often than not, bought into officials’ pleas for more revenue and promises to spend it on popular...
California Must Stop Relying on the Endangered Species Act to Manage the Environment
In California, state and federal endangered species acts play an important and often outsized role in regulating water and land management. These powerful laws are also often at the center of conflicts between environmental and economic uses of water. The state and federal acts have helped prevent the extinction of...
Walters: Bait and Switch on Pensions
Local officials, particularly those in California’s 400-plus cities, have been complaining loudly in recent years about pension costs, raising the specter of insolvency if they continue their rapid increase. Last year, the League of California Cities issued a report declaring that “pension costs will dramatically increase to unsustainable levels.” The California Public...
Mountain Lion Who Killed Dog Prowls California Neighborhood
SIMI VALLEY — Authorities have warned residents of a Southern California suburb to take precautions as a mountain lion prowls neighborhoods after killing a resident’s dog and injuring another pet. Sightings of the big cat in the city of Simi Valley near Los Angeles resumed Thursday evening, just hours after...