Big Tech Wants AI to Be Regulated. Why Do They Oppose a California AI Bill? August 22, 2024 By Greg Bensinger California legislators are set to vote on a bill as soon as this week that would broadly regulate how artificial...
Alphabet’s Waymo Robotaxi Unit Doubles Its Paid Rides In Three Months August 21, 2024 By Abhirup Roy Alphabet’s Waymo said on Tuesday it had doubled its paid rides to 100,000 per week in just over three months...
California Pot Farmers Feel the Heat from Low Pricing, Wildfires August 20, 2024 By Mrinalika Roy Small-scale cannabis farmers in California are calling it quits, crushed by crop damage from devastating wildfires and sliding prices, and...
California Commissioner Invites Input on Final Phase of Wildfire Modeling Regulation August 19, 2024 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has invited public input as he begins the final phase of approving a “first of...
Wildfires Are Growing Under Climate Change, and Their Smoke Threatens Farmworkers August 16, 2024 By Dorany Pineda As wildfires scorched swaths of land in the wine country of Sonoma County in 2020, sending ash flying and choking...
Californians Facing Higher Rent Because of Rising Insurance Rates August 15, 2024 By Levi Sumagaysay Like single-family homeowners in California, landlords are facing higher insurance premiums, too. And they’re passing along some of those costs...
Tesla’s California Car Registrations Fall for Third Straight Quarter July 19, 2024 By Akash Sriram and Hyunjoo Jin Registrations of Tesla cars in California fell 24% in the April to June period, marking the third consecutive quarter that...
Intense Heat Expected to Challenge Records in Pacific Northwest Over Weekend July 19, 2024 Intense heat that has been baking parts of the interior Western U.S. is expected to expand into the Pacific Northwest...
California Needs a Million EV Charging Stations — But That’s ‘Unlikely’ and ‘Unrealistic’ July 18, 2024 By Alejandro Lazo California will have to build public charging stations at an unprecedented — and some experts say unrealistic — pace to...
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...