Deaths, Injuries, Billions of Dollars Are Costs of Extreme Heat in California July 11, 2024 By Levi Sumagaysay A blistering California heat wave over the past weeks and through the Fourth of July holiday could be topped off...
California Commissioner’s Analysis Shows $7.7B in Losses From Extreme Heat Events July 5, 2024 The cumulative cost of the seven heat events in California in the past decade amounted to $7.7 billion in losses,...
Containment Grows on Wildfire Near Site of Most Destructive Blaze in California History June 26, 2024 Residents of a California area near the town of Paradise, the site of the state’s most destructive wildfire in history,...
AccuWeather: Year’s First Big Heatwave Raises Wildfire Risk in West June 3, 2024 Severe heat will raise the risk of brush and grassfires from central and northern California, also bringing a moderate to...
AccuWeather: Intense Heat Baking Mexico to Shift into Western U.S. May 30, 2024 The heat dome that led to record-high temperatures in Mexico is forecast to expand northward and bring higher temperatures to...
California Trucker Death Led to Workers’ Comp Investigation That Found $2M in Underreported Payroll May 17, 2024 An investigation began after an employee was found dead in a company owned semi-truck led to the arraignment of a...
California Business Owner Ordered to Pay $687K in Restitution for Workers’ Comp Fraud May 3, 2024 A California business owner convicted of felony workers’ compensation insurance fraud was ordered to pay $687,560 in restitution to the...
Study: California’s 2023 Snowy Rescue from Megadrought a Freak Event May 1, 2024 By Brittany Peterson and Seth Borenstein Last year’s snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from...
California Green City Backers Advance Landowner Legal Fight April 2, 2024 A company that bought property for a group of tech billionaires trying to build a sustainable city in northern California...
New $20 Minimum Wage for Fast Food Workers in California Began Monday April 1, 2024 By Terry Chea and Adam Beam Most fast food workers in California will be paid at least $20 an hour began Monday, when a new law...