Vaccinated California Workers May Have to Keep Masks on June 4, 2021 By Don Thompson California is set to fully reopen in less than two weeks and do away with virtually all mask and social...
California Seeing More Wildfires as Drought Intensifies May 26, 2021 By Don Thompson As California sinks deeper into drought it already has had more than 900 additional wildfires than at this point in...
California Aiming to Ease Virus Rules for Workers in Mid-June May 25, 2021 By Don Thompson California workforce regulators will aim for a mid-June easing of workplace mask and social distancing requirements to conform with a...
California Restaurants Expect Rebound That Will Take Years May 20, 2021 By Don Thompson Nearly a third of California’s restaurants permanently closed and two-thirds of workers at least temporarily lost their jobs as the...
California Drought Emergency Expanded to Large Swath Of State May 12, 2021 By Don Thompson California Gov. Gavin Newsom this week expanded a drought emergency to a large swath of the nation’s most populous state...
Judge Weighs Whether PG&E Violated Probation With 2019 California Fire May 6, 2021 By Don Thompson A federal judge is weighing whether Pacific Gas & Electric violated its criminal probation by sparking a wildfire north of...
California Targets Urgent Projects as Wildfire Season Looms April 15, 2021 By Adam Beam and Don Thompson California is in such an urgent race with another devastating wildfire season that officials began soliciting local project ideas even...
California Plans $536M for Wildfire Mitigation Before Fire Season April 14, 2021 By Don Thompson California will authorize $536 million for wildfire mitigation and forest management projects before the worst of the fire season strikes...
California’s PG&E Sees Criminal Charges in 2019 Wildfire April 8, 2021 By Don Thompson A California prosecutor has filed 33 criminal charges accusing troubled Pacific Gas & Electric of inadvertently injuring six firefighters and...
California Attorney General Challenges Housing Plans in Wildfire Areas March 19, 2021 By Don Thompson California’s attorney general is challenging some of the state’s largest suburban development projects as local officials weigh the risk of...