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Justice Kagan says there needs to be a way to enforce the US Supreme Court's new ethics code
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday became the first member of the U.S. Supreme Court to call publicly for beefing up its new ethics code by adding a way to enforce it. In her first public remarks since the nation's highest court wrapped up its term earlier...
Silicon Valley-backed voter plan for a new California city won't be on the November ballot after all
FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area on land now zoned for agriculture won't be on the Nov. 5 ballot after all, officials said Monday. The California Forever campaign qualified for...
Hot, inland California cities face the steepest water cuts with new conservation mandate
Facing a future of shortages, California is entering a new phase of water conservation: Cities and towns must meet new mandates ramping down use over the next 15 years — and some will be hit harder than others. Approved two weeks ago, the new state rules require 405 cities and...
A prison union's big spending on Gavin Newsom: Is it an ‘800 pound gorilla’ or a threatened species?
A year after he took the top job in 2019, the president of one of California’s largest and most powerful unions said in a newsletter that he wanted to be “the 800 pound gorilla” in Sacramento politics. Since then, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, the...
California city cancels July Fourth fireworks as firefighters battle flames amid hot weather
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Officials in a Northern California community cancelled an annual Fourth of July fireworks celebration as an estimated 26,000 residents remained displaced by a growing wildfire, while hundreds of firefighters toiled under extreme heat to keep flames from reaching more...
Fight over retail theft is testing California Democrats' drive to avoid mass incarceration policies
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state leaders reversed course on a plan to place a crime-focused initiative on the November ballot a day after announcing it. In a statement released Tuesday night, Newsom said there’s not enough time for state leaders...
Dangerously high heat builds in California and the south-central United States
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Swaths of California sweltered Tuesday and things were only expected to get worse during the Fourth of July holiday week for parts of the United States, with nearly 90 million people under heat alerts. The torrid conditions were being caused by a ridge of...
Silicon Valley-backed voter plan for new California city qualifies for November ballot
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area has qualified for the Nov. 5 ballot, elections officials said Tuesday. Solano County's registrar of voters said in a statement that the office...
Sacramento mass shooting suspect dies in jail cell, police and attorney say
A suspect who was being held in a California jail on charges connected to a 2022 mass shooting in the state capital died in his cell Saturday, according to police and his attorney. The 29-year-old male inmate died while in custody at the Sacramento County Main Jail around 2:15 a.m.,...
Proposed gender identity measure fails to qualify for California ballot
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians won't be voting this November on a policy that would have required schools to notify parents if their child asks to change their gender identification. Proponents of a ballot measure to create such a statewide policy announced Tuesday they...
