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News Articles: CAlifornia

A McDonald's worker hands food to a customer at a drive-thru window in Los Angeles, on Sept. 28.

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  • Business

California fast-food workers will get $20 minimum wage, starting Monday

Debate is hot about the impact of a higher minimum wage. Half a million Californians work in fast-food, where wages had stagnated for decades. Restaurant owners warn of higher prices and fewer hours.

April 01, 2024
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo and
  • Alina Selyukh
Chevron operates a major refinery in Richmond, Calif., a community with high childhood asthma rates. It also owns the city's dominant news site, putting its own spin on events, and runs similar websites in Texas and Ecuador.

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  • Media

Chevron owns this city's news site. Many stories aren't told

Chevron operates a major refinery in Richmond, Calif. It also owns the city's dominant news site, putting its own spin on events, and runs similar sites in Texas and Ecuador.

March 28, 2024
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By:
  • Miranda Green and
  • David Folkenflik
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in support of Proposition 1, a $6.38 billion bond ballot measure, during a news conference at the Los Angeles General Medical Center in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024.

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  • National

California voters pass Proposition 1 to tackle the state's homelessness crisis

Counties must spend about two-thirds of the money from a tax enacted for mental health services on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses or substance abuse problems.

March 21, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Students finish their lunch at Lowell Elementary School in Albuquerque, N.M., on Aug. 22, 2023. A legislative proposal would ban six artificial food dyes in California schools.

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  • Food

Here are the concerns with artificial food dyes, as California weighs a ban in schools

Six artificial food dyes and titanium dioxide would be banned in schools under a proposal in the state legislature. Critics say there isn't enough evidence to prove they're a health risk.

March 14, 2024
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
The site of a head-on crash involving a van and a pickup truck where eight people were killed is checked in Madera County, Calif., on Friday.

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  • National

8 people killed in a head-on crash in central California farming region

Seven farmworkers traveling in a van and the driver of a pickup truck were killed Friday in a head-on crash in a farming area in central California, police said.

February 23, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
San Jose: Search and rescue workers check a car trapped in flooding after heavy rain caused the Guadalupe River to overflow its banks, Sunday.

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  • Weather

Photos: See how the atmospheric river is battering California

Forecasters now say 8 to 15 inches of rain could fall in the mountains and foothills of Southern California.

February 05, 2024
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By:
  • Nicole Werbeck and
  • Nate Rott
A car sits partially submerged on a flooded road during a rain storm in Long Beach, Calif., on Thursday.

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  • Weather

Atmospheric river expected to bring life-threatening floods to Southern California

The National Weather Service warns the storm could drop unprecedented rain over a wide area from Saturday night through early next week, with the period of most concern from Sunday into early Monday.

February 03, 2024
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By:
  • NPR Staff
This aerial image from video provided by KTLA shows law enforcement vehicles where several people were found shot to death in El Mirage, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024.

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  • National

5 people have been arrested in California desert killings, sheriff's department says

The suspects were arrested after deputies served search warrants on Sunday. "We are confident that this appears to be a dispute over marijuana," a sheriff's department spokesperson said.

January 29, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
California's new law is already facing all kinds of hurdles in the courts.

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  • Law

A new California law restricts carrying guns in public — testing the Second Amendment

Gun owners in California can no longer carry firearms into a range of locations deemed "sensitive spaces." It is already facing all kinds of hurdles in the courts.

January 04, 2024
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Christopher Intagliata,
  • and 1 more
Workers set up sand bags in front of a beachfront property in anticipation of high surf hitting the shore on Friday in Ventura, Calif.

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  • Weather

Powerful Pacific swell brings the threat of more dangerous surf to California

The ocean was less violent Friday but the National Weather Service warned that another round of extremely dangerous surf conditions would return Saturday.

December 30, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A man fires his pistol at an indoor shooting range during a qualification course to renew his Carry Concealed handgun permit at the Placer Sporting Club, July 1, 2022, in Roseville, Calif.

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  • National

Judge blocks California law banning carrying firearms in most public places

The law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom was set to take effect Jan. 1. It would have prohibited people from carrying concealed guns in places including parks and playgrounds, churches, banks and zoos.

December 21, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Legislative Analyst Gabriel Petek, left, discusses Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposed 2020-21 revised state budget during a hearing the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., May 26, 2020. On Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, Petek said California is facing a $68 billion budget deficit.

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  • National

California faces record $68 billion budget deficit, analyst says

The nation's most populous state — with an economy that is the fifth largest in the world — has been struggling with the rising prices of most goods and services.

December 08, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
People gather in San Francisco to watch a debate on Fox News between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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  • Elections

DeSantis-Newsom 'debate' offers window into the future of warring visions of America

There couldn't be two governors with more opposite ideologies than the Florida Republican and the California Democrat, but few minds were likely changed.

December 01, 2023
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Community health worker Hector Gallegos and nurse Jose Lopez gather supplies to treat homeless patients in Modesto, California.

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  • Health Care

Should Medicaid pay to help someone find a home? California is trying it

California is making the nation's most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing and food for some of the state's sickest and most vulnerable residents.

November 15, 2023
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By:
  • Ryan Levi and
  • Dan Gorenstein
Five years after one of the worst wildfires in American history, the town of Paradise, Calif., is slowly being rebuilt.

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  • National

A California town wiped off the map by wildfire is still recovering five years on

Five years after of one of America's worst wildfires, slow and expensive recovery continues in Paradise, Calif., which could be a portent for what's ahead on fire-stricken Maui.

November 08, 2023
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
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