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Her case is one of many involving people of color that don't get much public attention, raising complaints of a phenomenon known as “missing white woman syndrome.” -
California high school students will have to take a course in ethnic studies to get a diploma starting in the 2029-30 school year. The state is among the first in the nation to list ethnic studies as a graduation requirement. -
San Diego County officials Wednesday said they were ready to respond should oil from the pipeline break in Orange County make its way into San Diego County waters and beaches. -
During the pandemic, the Employment Development Department approved billions of dollars in fraudulent payments in the names of prison inmates and others who were not eligible to receive them. -
The mandatory sentencing law grew out of what state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) called a failed war on drugs that disproportionately incarcerated people who are Black and Latino. -
Oil spilling into federal waters off California's coast has prompted fresh calls for an end to offshore oil drilling in state and federal waters. But that's easier said than done. -
California’s Statewide Commission on Recycling Markets and Curbside Recycling says consumers assume that the chasing arrows symbol means that items should go into curbside recycling bins. It recommended that the symbol be reserved for materials that are accepted in curbside bins. -
A divided three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that it found the ban interferes with the federal government’s authority to enforce the law. -
After 40 drawings without a big Powerball winner, a single ticket sold in Morro Bay matched all six numbers and was the lucky winner of the nearly $700 million jackpot prize. -
The company whose pipeline is suspected in one of the largest oil spills in recent California history has been cited 72 times for safety and environmental violations that were severe enough that drilling had to be curtailed or cut off to fix the problem.
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