Nearly one-third of all Americans experiencing homelessness live in California. Each night, more than 170,000 people sleep outside or in temporary shelters across the state. The vast majority—90 percent—were living in California when they became unhoused. And 75 percent are homeless in the same county in which they lost their housing.
In cities across the state, housing has been a dominant political issue.
They’ve had little success. A recent divestment bill that would have directed managers of California’s public pension and teachers’ retirement funds to stop investing in the 200 largest oil, gas and coal companies failed in the Legislature for the second year in a row. State pension funds have an estimated $14.8 billion invested in fossil fuel companies that are driving the climate crisis.
SB 252 would require the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and the State Teachers’ Retirement System to
Mike Reynolds, a California photographer who, after his daughter was murdered in 1992, became a driving force behind stricter sentencing reforms in his state, including its contentious three-strikes law, died on July 9 in Fresno, Calif. He was 79.
The death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his son Michael Reynolds, who said the cause was complications of open-heart surgery.
Mr. Reynolds was best known for developing, and then successfully campaigning for, a proposal to impose a sentence of 25
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a half-century of precedent and made it illegal for public and private universities and colleges to consider race in student admissions. The decision comes at a time when the nation is rapidly diversifying, with less than half of children under age 15 identifying as white.
No one can know for sure how the ending of affirmative action will ultimately alter these schools’ racial compositions. But insights from California, which banned race-based admissions at
A worldwide gearshift from fossil fuel–powered cars to electric vehicles could significantly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that humans emit to the atmosphere. But current strategies for vehicle electrification can also shift some pollution to communities already suffering under higher economic, health and environmental burdens, researchers warn.
California, which leads the United States by a mile when it comes to EV adoption, offers a window into this evolving problem. The state is aggressively seeking to reduce its carbon footprint
EDITOR’S NOTE: The names of undocumented people in this story have been changed to protect their identities.
Tulare, Calif.—Lidia Torres got scared when the new eligibility clerk at the labor camp knocked on her door. She would have to come to the office, Vanessa Carter told her, and reverify the immigration documents she’d provided when she first moved in six
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On an early-December morning in California’s Mojave Desert, the Geoscience Support Services geohydrologist Logan Wicks squats in the sand and fiddles with a broken white pipe. Here on a sandy road off Route 66, past miles of scrubby creosote and spiny mesquite, Wicks monitors the pumps and pipes of a promising desert extraction project.
But he’s not looking for oil or gas. Crouching under the shade of a 10-foot lemon tree, at the edge of a citrus orchard that spans
Harry and Meghan’s home in Montecito, California has been placed under an evacuation order with residents told to ‘LEAVE NOW’.
The order came as a five-year-old boy was swept away in floodwaters and the death toll in California’s mega storms climbed to 14.
A relentless string of storms has slammed the Golden State, swamping roads, battering coastlines with high surf, turning rivers into gushing flood zones and forcing the evacuation of thousands in towns with histories of deadly mudslides.
The
Sarah Hyland and boyfriend Wells Adams are married.
The Modern Family beauty, 31, and the Bachelor in Paradise personality, 38, exchanged vows Saturday at the Sunstone Winery near Santa Barbara, California.
The actress, who played Haley Dunphy on the ABC series from 2009-2020, was supported by costars Sofia Vergara, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould, Julie Bowen and Jesse Tyler Ferguson at the event. About 150 people were in attendance.
The latest: Sarah Hyland and boyfriend Wells Adams are married, as the
