As wildfires continue to devastate Los Angeles, state Democrats are planning to tap $1.5 billion in bonds for wildfire preparedness just months after voters approved a landmark debt-spending plan for climate projects, as part of a special legislative session originally convened last month to counter the incoming Trump administration.
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When the Metropolitan Transportation Commission last month decided to permanently raise Bay Area bridge tolls by another $2.50, it was flying blind, lacking basic financial data to justify the increase.
A bill that would give people serving life without parole a second chance at freedom was brought back in the California Assembly Monday after a year of inactivity.
Last week, CalMatters reported on six Yolo County farmworkers who claim that they were fired for leaving their jobs during a June heatwave.
During the California Gold Rush, there were 624 miners for every 1,000 people. But, it wasn’t the goldminers that made millions, it was the businessmen providing services.
California farmworkers who say they’ve faced dangerously hot worksites spoke Monday in support of a bill that seeks to protect them from extreme heat.
This November, voters across the San Francisco Bay Area will be asked whether to back the largest affordable housing bond in California history — a $20 billion IOU aimed at building homes in the epicenter of the state’s housing crisis.
Earlier this summer, Erika Deluque began to feel weak while working in a Dixon tomato field in triple-digit heat. Her headache grew stronger, her body involuntarily shivered and she felt like vomiting.
“I felt so suffocated, so desperate,” recalled Deluque, 32.