Tag: California

FILE - This Nov. 8, 2011 file photo shows the vast lawn in front of Beverly Hills High School. Tentative plans call for drilling a subway tunnel 70 feet beneath the campus. Los Angeles' growing public transit network is receiving another big dose of cash from the federal government. Federal and local transportation officials are set to sign grant and loan agreements Wednesday, May 21, 2014, totaling $2.1 billion, so that the L.A. County Metropolitan Transportation Authority can extend a subway line into Beverly Hills and, if several lawsuits are settled, all the way to the west side. One of the lawsuits concerns the subway's routing near the high school. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Los Angeles subway getting $2.1B federal promise

Justin Pritchard · May 20, 2014 10:23 pm

Calif. advocacy groups decry ballot measure to increase med-mal cap

David Yates · May 20, 2014 7:27 pm

$Richard Gray, left, joins others in a demonstration calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to end hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas, outside the auditorium where Brown spoke about climate change at the University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics conference in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, May 19, 2014.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)$ Business

Brown: California at ‘epicenter’ of climate change

Juliet Williams · May 20, 2014 12:20 am

A new audit shows officials and employees of the Orange County Fire Authority are concerned about "accountability, discipline and leadership" within the agency. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

California fire agency found to have numerous management issues

Kelly Cohen · May 19, 2014 2:47 pm

FILE -- In this July 23, 2013 file photo is Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security hearing; "Addressing the Immigration Status of Illegal Immigrants Brought to the United States as Children". Denham, whose district is in California's agricultural heartland of the San Joaquin Valley, is not worried that Congress' failure to pass immigration legislation will hurt his reelection.

California Republicans stress immigration support

Kevin Freking · May 17, 2014 3:18 pm

Ballot initiative to increase med-mal caps in California qualifies

David Yates · May 16, 2014 9:58 pm

Budget analyst projects even higher tax revenue in California

Judy Lin · May 16, 2014 9:55 pm

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Energy and Environment

San Diego sits on city-purchased bike racks (figuratively speaking)

Kelly Cohen · May 16, 2014 4:00 am

Senate OKs bill to diversify Covered California

Washington Examiner · May 15, 2014 9:00 pm

Workers remove damaged tanker cars along the tracks where several CSX tanker cars carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire along the James River near downtown Lynchburg, Va., Thursday, May 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Energy and Environment

50,000 gallons of oil spill on California streets

Associated Press · May 15, 2014 4:00 am

California bill to ban plastic bags advances

Washington Examiner · May 15, 2014 12:09 am

Brown signs bill to increase political disclosures

Washington Examiner · May 14, 2014 11:35 pm