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A new state law allows California to set its own vaccine recommendations and requires health plans it regulates to cover them.
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Folic acid reduces the risk of birth defects and the FDA requires that bakers include it in enriched bread. California could extend the mandate to tortillas and foods made with corn masa flour. -
Republican Steve Garvey and Democrat Adam Schiff each raised more than $3 million between Feb. 15 and March 31. But Schiff started April with $4.8 million on hand — triple the amount in Garvey’s bank. -
Rural Latino communities are divided about the project, which would capture carbon from an oilfield and power plant — and allow an oil company to keep operating as the state struggles to slash greenhouse gases. -
Restaurants and stores are being cautioned to check their freezers for the origin of their oysters. -
The California Senate Public Safety Committee shot down a bill banning homeless encampments Tuesday. -
A bill to ban homeless encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative committee as last year. -
The tortoises emerged following the transfer of the animals as part of a collaborative effort to increase the species' survival rate. -
California officials are considering whether to take over monitoring groundwater use in part of the fertile San Joaquin Valley. -
The media personality and socialite is crusading against abuse of teens at treatment facilities and wants California legislators to pass a bill. -
The wrongful termination suit, filed by a former nurse, alleges poor care and unsafe nurse-to-patient ratios at the Otay Mesa Detention Center.
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