The Trump administration has launched an investigation into California’s high-speed rail project — what could be the first step in clawing back the $4 billion promised by the Biden administration to build out the first section of the line, from Merced to Bakersfield. “For too long, taxpayers have subsidized the massively over-budget and delayed California … Read more
As an Orange County judge, who a short time earlier had admitted to fatally shooting his wife during a heated argument at their Anaheim Hills home, was being processed into police custody, his thoughts apparently took a turn toward how he might address the jury at his own future trial. “I killed her,” Superior Court … Read more
Fiscal darkness is gathering in California, where as many as three crises could converge in mere months — all while Democrats have put “affordability” at the top of a mythical agenda. It’s so potentially bad that Gov. Gavin Newsom has been in Washington sucking up to President Donald Trump, playing down that he ordered the legislature … Read more
East Bay Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks and state Senator Christopher Cabaldon, a Yolo County Democrat, on Tuesday brought back a proposal to place a $10 billion bond for affordable housing programs on the June 2026 ballot after failing to get a measure on the November 2024 ballot. If approved, it would authorize general obligation bonds for … Read more
Long before Silicon Valley billionaires purchased tracts of Solano County land to build a tech utopia, a group of Bay Area environmentalists proposed one of their own: an “ecovillage” to serve as a model for sustainable communities worldwide. In the early 2000s, Bay Area environmentalists and futurists designed “Califia,” a 10,000-person community named after a … Read more
By HOLLY RAMER, PATRICK WHITTLE and MARK SCOLFORO In the wooded outskirts of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a perplexed landlord noticed odd sights at two of his rental properties. Tenants wore long black coats and parked box trucks outside the duplexes. They ran an electrical cord from one box truck into one of the condos, … Read more
An 18-year-old Lancaster resident was sentenced to four years in federal prison for making hundreds of swatting and threat calls across the nation, often for profit, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Tuesday, Feb. 11. Alan W. Filion made nearly 400 swatting and threat calls between August 2022 and January 2024, according to a statement … Read more