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Fifteen more vaccinated California residents — including three from Los Angeles County and one each from Orange, San Diego and Riverside counties — were chosen by the state Friday to receive $50,000 prizes in a COVID-19 vaccine incentive program. -
California lives and property are increasingly at risk from a warming climate’s growing wildfire risk. -
KPBS Midday EditionIn addition to appealing U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez's order that found the ban unconstitutional, California will ask the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to extend the current 30-day stay of the ban, which Benitez issued along with his ruling last Friday. -
California’s workplace regulators have withdrawn a controversial pending mask regulation while they consider a rule that more closely aligns with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s promise that the state will fully reopen from the pandemic on Tuesday. -
A dozen major California business organizations have called on Gov. Gavin Newsom to change recently adopted workplace regulations requiring all workers to wear masks unless everyone in a room is vaccinated. -
Oceans Day comes in San Diego as the Pacific struggles under an assault from the planet and people. -
A San Diego researcher thinks greenhouse gas reduction strategies should also look at air pollution. -
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a lawsuit can go forward in which a group of Muslim residents of California alleges the FBI targeted them for surveillance because of their religion. -
Newsom said Friday he will keep in place the emergency order that gives him broad authority to issue, alter or suspend state laws and regulations. Newsom said he is not taking the summer months off from the threat posed by the coronavirus. -
In a 94-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez, an appointee of then-President George W. Bush, wrote, "Like the Swiss Army knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment."
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