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The San Francisco skyline is visible on April 26, 2023. California regulators adopted a drinking water limit on toxic hexavalent chromium.

California sets long-awaited drinking water limit for 'Erin Brockovich' contaminant

California regulators adopted a drinking water limit on toxic hexavalent chromium, a chemical compound made infamous by the movie “Erin Brockovich."

The Legal Geeks is a group of lawyers and judges who want to use pop culture to teach about the law. They have two panels at Comic-Con.

How a judge fights for truth, justice and pop culture

Legal Geeks make the law fun with two panels at Comic-Con this week.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ordering dairy producers to test cows that produce milk for infections from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) before the animals are transported to a different state following the discovery of the virus in samples of pasteurized milk taken by the Food and Drug Administration.

The U.S. may be missing human cases of bird flu, scientists say

Officially, only one person has caught the illness during the current outbreak. But with limited testing, cases could be flying under the radar.

Vice President Harris watches as President Biden signs an executive order on artificial intelligence on Oct. 30. On Thursday, the Biden administration issued new rules on how government agencies can implement AI.

The White House issued new rules on how government can use AI. Here's what they do

The memo outlines how government agencies can implement artificial intelligence and requires that agencies have a chief AI officer.

A student using a miter saw to cut a 2-by-4 piece of lumber this is undated photo from San Marcos Unified School District.

North County schools, seeing skills gap, invest in trades careers

Two North County school districts show there is more than one pathway to a successful career after secondary education.

Anderson Family Care in Demopolis, Alabama, is like a lot of rural health providers that treat many uninsured or underinsured patients.

Why haven't Kansas and Alabama — among other holdouts — expanded access to Medicaid?

Only 10 states have not joined the federal program that expands Medicaid to people who are still in the "coverage gap" for health care

Surgeons perform the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a living human at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

First human transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney performed

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital said they transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a living human for the first time. The 62-year-old recipient has end-stage kidney disease.

The Edward J. Schwartz Courthouse, which houses the U.S. Southern District Court of California, is pictured in downtown San Diego on April 9, 2024.

Federal judge bans 'excited delirium' from upcoming Chula Vista police misconduct trial

The decision comes just months after California lawmakers outlawed the use of the disproven medical theory as a cause of death.

Satellite imagery of Hurricane Hilary is seen in this animation taken Aug. 18, 2023.

Hilary was not a tropical storm when it entered California, yet it had the same impact, study shows

The report says the storm lost tropical characteristics and degenerated to a post-tropical cyclone over northern Baja California before a new system absorbed its remnants and moved into the United States. Damage was estimated at $900 million in the U.S.

The State of California will decide whether landline service will go the way of other old communication technology, like this dial phone. April 3, 2024

AT&T request to California PUC could send landlines to the landfill

The company is asking the CPUC to relieve it of the burden of keeping and maintaining telephone landlines.

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