All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 20 2017 // A wildfire in foothills west of Yosemite National Park destroyed dozens of structures and forced thousands to flee towns but fire crews have been able to stop it from reaching a threatened community on the foothills of the...
Jul 19 2017 // The Wal-Mart greeter who took the retail giant all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in the largest gender bias class-action lawsuit in U.S. history has died.A niece, Rita Roland, says Betty Dukes died July 10 at her home...
Jul 19 2017 // Three ocean-front California local governments are taking legal action against oil companies, saying oil giants have known for almost 50 years that fossil fuels are changing the climate and causing sea rise.Northern...
Jul 19 2017 // A California blaze in the rugged mountains outside of Yosemite National Park has destroyed eight structures and forced thousands of nearby residents to flee their homes.As of Tuesday evening, the fire had scorched 39...
Jul 18 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation has issued modified proposed regulations to adopt the medical treatment utilization schedule drug formulary.The proposed rulemaking implements Assembly Bill 1124,...
Jul 18 2017 // California’s drought-ridden feet aren’t out of the proverbial fire yet.This years’ powerful winter storms ended perpetual discourse about the state’s multiyear drought, but there are still 4.5...
Jul 18 2017 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, who was a passenger last week on the Air Canada flight 759 that nearly landed on a taxiway at San Francisco International Airport, has sent a letter to the airline and three...
Jul 18 2017 // A wildfire burning in central California tripled in size Monday, forcing more people from their homes as firefighters battle the day-old blaze.The fire is burning near Lake McClure, a reservoir about 50 miles east of...
Jul 17 2017 // The California Division of Workers’ Compensation is reporting that 441,070 supplemental lien declaration forms were filed.This amount represents half of the 882,648 liens filed in California’s workers’...
Jul 17 2017 // Two top scientists are suing their employer, the Salk Institute, alleging that they and other women have suffered long-term gender discrimination at the renowned California research center.Vicki Lundblad and Katherine...
Jul 14 2017 // A top California state official said he was a passenger on an Air Canada jet that nearly landed on a taxiway where four other planes were sitting rather than the designated runway at San Francisco International Airport...
Jul 14 2017 // California Gov. Jerry Brown announced yet another plan Wednesday to keep the United States on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the international Paris climate agreement.This time, he’s teaming up with...
Jul 14 2017 // A new progress report from the California Department of Industrial Relations on the department’s independent medical review program shows that 13,000 decisions run through the medical dispute resolution process each...
Jul 13 2017 // Relief was arriving after a rough stretch of wildfires all around the U.S. West, with firefighters slowly surrounding once-fierce blazes and evacuees starting to stream back home.Authorities surveying the damage from a...
Jul 12 2017 // The tension between Washington D.C. and Sacramento seems to have created extra work for some lobbyists.“It’s absolutely palpable,” Paul Yoder, managing director for the California Coalition on...
Jul 12 2017 // Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders have released a plan to extend through 2030 California’s cap-and-trade program, a key piece of the state’s quest to fight climate change by drastically reducing...
Jul 12 2017 // Wildfires driving people from their homes in California and throughout the West have had help from an unlikely source: the rain. Major winter downpours that pulled the state out of years of drought also brought a layer of...
Jul 12 2017 // A new study has found that state reforms to control the costs of prescription drugs by targeting reimbursements for physicians dispensing them are having some effect but that physician-dispensing still accounts for a large...
Jul 11 2017 // A Northern California wildfire has destroyed 37 structures, at least some of them homes. The figure is up from 17 destroyed structures previously reported by state fire officials.However, the blaze weakened significantly...
Jul 10 2017 // A virtual grin arose on the face of Harvey Rosenfield with the mention of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.The mention was made during a phone call, but the overwhelming satisfaction of a smile was easily...