SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When North Carolina in 2016 banned transgender people from using the bathroom of their gender identity in public buildings, California retaliated by banning state-funded travel to that state and any other state with laws it deemed discriminatory against LGBTQ people. But seven years later, California now bans state-funded travel to nearly…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — It was just a few weeks ago that California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the oil industry the second most powerful force on earth, trailing only Mother Nature in its ability to bend the elements — both physical and political — to its will. Yet on Tuesday, Newsom signed a new law…… MORE
TULARE, CA (KMJ) – Tulare County launches debris removal programfor residents impacted by flooding. Tulare County, in partnership with CalOES and FEMA, has established a debris removal program for residents impacted by the recent March flooding events. Residents are encouraged to place any debris related to the recent flooding events curbside at the edge of…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, CA (KMJ) – ‘Gavin’s Law passed out of the Assembly Public Safety Committee on Tuesday. The committee heard powerful testimony from Rita Gladding, Gavin’s mother, and Mike Osegueda, whose sister Courtney Osegueda was killed in a hit-and-run crash in February 2021 in Oakland. With the votes cast, the bill was left one vote short…… MORE
(AP) – A field that has long grown tomatoes, peppers and onions now looks like a wind-whipped ocean as farmer Don Cameron seeks to capture the runoff from a freakishly wet year in California to replenish the groundwater basin that is his only source to water his crops. Taking some tomatoes out of production for…… MORE
SAN DIEGO (AP) — As drought dried up rivers that carry California’s newly hatched Chinook salmon to the ocean, state officials in recent years resorted to loading up the fish by the millions onto trucks and barges to take them to the Pacific. The surreal and desperate scramble boosted the survival rate of the hatchery-raised…… MORE
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KMJ) — A man is now facing murder charges after deputies say he struck another man with his vehicle intentionally in Del Rey. According to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, 48-year-old Jaime Loza was hit by an SUV back on March 16, near Carmel and Morro Avenues. When crews arrives, Lazo was…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Thursday will vote on whether to allow penalties on oil companies for price gouging at the pump, a first-in-the-country proposal aimed at stopping the kind of spikes last summer that caused some drivers pay up to $8 per gallon as the industry reaped super-sized profits. Gov. Gavin Newsom,…… MORE
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A strong late-season Pacific storm that brought damaging winds and more rain and snow to saturated California has been blamed for two deaths and forecasters said additional flooding was possible Wednesday in parts of the state. Tuesday’s storm blasted the San Francisco Bay Area with powerful gusts and downpours, pounded…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked key provisions of a California law that drastically restricts the sale of new handguns in the state, saying parts of the legislation violate the Second Amendment. A lawsuit challenging the law was filed last year by the California Rifle & Pistol Association and other gun…… MORE
