All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 15 2025 // California will extend a key climate program under a bill state lawmakers passed Saturday, sending the measure to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has championed it as a crucial tool to respond to the Trump administration’s...
Sep 15 2025 // A federal court ordered a Northern California-based roofing contractor to pay $1.9 million in back wages and damages to 158 workers after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation reportedly found the employer failed to pay...
Sep 12 2025 // California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in support urging the court to affirm an employee’s right to sue Liberty University for sex-based...
Sep 12 2025 // The California Second District Court of Appeals found that a retail store chain illegally sold credit insurance to its customers.The California Department of Justice charged Adir International LLC (dba Curacao), and its...
Sep 12 2025 // Nearly seven years after Paradise was ravaged by wildfire, the foothill town smells like pine trees again. New homes are sprouting up on once-scorched lots. Construction trucks rumble through neighborhoods. An ice cream...
Sep 10 2025 // California lawmakers have reached an initial agreement to shore up the state’s wildfire utility fund.The agreement is expected be filed into legislative text on Wednesday after lawmakers suspended a Tuesday deadline,...
Sep 9 2025 // When Dave Jones first started talking about climate change and what insurers should be doing about it some 15 years ago, the response could be thought of as something akin to a collective shrug.There wasn’t much to...
Sep 8 2025 // Most California homes were built long before the state required that they be constructed to withstand wildfires. Now, sellers of older homes in high-risk areas must disclose to potential buyers not only a dwelling’s...
Sep 8 2025 // The California Insurance Commissioner’s Conservation and Liquidation Office (CLO), as Conservator of California Insurance Company (CIC), is seeking an Independent Consultant to assist the Conservator in performing...
Sep 8 2025 // The California Labor Commissioner’s Office cited J BBQ, a Koreatown restaurant, more than $680,000 for wage theft violations.A total of 48 workers were impacted by the violations, which included unpaid wages, denied...
Sep 4 2025 // The U.S. asked a federal court to force Southern California Edison to pay for fighting a pair of wildfires that were believed to have originated from its power lines, including the Eaton Fire in January in Los Angeles...
Sep 4 2025 // Several wildfires were burning in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada area, forcing evacuations and destroying buildings in a historic mining town.The fires were started by numerous lightning strikes that hit California...
Sep 4 2025 // U.S. states of California, Oregon and Washington said on Wednesday they have launched a new health alliance to provide unified vaccine recommendations amid growing tensions over federal immunization policies and public...
Sep 3 2025 // A quick-moving wildfire burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners, forcing evacuations and destroying properties.The fire rapidly expanded to 6,473 acres, forcing the evacuation...
Sep 3 2025 // California energy regulators have put the brakes on plans requiring oil companies to pay a penalty if their profits climb too high, a temporary win for the fossil fuel industry two years after the governor declared the...
Sep 2 2025 // Eight months after the Palisades and Eaton wildfires in Los Angeles, commercial and residential policyholders continue to report unreasonably long delays, dubious denials, and conspicuously low settlements. Most...
Aug 29 2025 // Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. agreed to back a state-supervised way for California drivers to unionize and collectively bargain on industry-wide pay and benefit guarantees, under a new legislative deal that provides...
Aug 29 2025 // A jury has awarded at least $2.2 million to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020.In the verdict...
Aug 29 2025 // Aspire General Insurance announced the completion of a strategic debt financing agreement with Comvest Partners. The investment will enhance California-based Aspire’s capital position, enabling expanded capabilities,...
Aug 28 2025 // A fast-growing wildfire burning in central California’s Sierra National Forest in Fresno County in a remote area is the latest blaze of concern for firefighters.The Garnet Fire has burned more than 13,900 acres and...