California News Archives

Governor Newsom and health officials provide an update on state’s response to novel coronavirus

February 27, 2020 10:27 AM The Associated Press, Avery Johnson

Health officials say new coronavirus case in California could be the first in the U.S. that has no known connection to travel…

Coronavirus case of unknown origin diagnosed in Solano County

February 26, 2020 5:00 PM Avery Johnson

An official with the CDC reportedly said Wednesday that a new coronavirus case has been confirmed in Northern…

California lottery didn’t give $36M to schools, auditor says

February 25, 2020 2:09 PM The Associated Press, Avery Johnson

California’s state auditor says the California State Lottery skimped on giving $36 million in revenue to fund public education funding and spent…

California bill would seal 2 million criminal records

February 25, 2020 10:42 AM The Associated Press

California will consider legislation that would wipe the low-level criminal records of about 2 million people going back…

Wine sellers cited for auto-renew policies

February 24, 2020 2:41 PM Ron Keller

The Santa Cruz County District Attorney has announced judgments against two wine distribution companies for violating California’s Automatic Renewal…

Wandering bear attracts a crowd

February 21, 2020 12:08 PM The Associated Press

MONROVIA, Calif. (AP) A bear has stirred commotion as it wanders a Los Angeles foothill suburb. The bear sluggishly ambled along streets and into…

California agrees to spend $50M to help kids who can’t read

February 20, 2020 3:34 PM The Associated Press

California will spend $50 million for literary instruction at dozens of poor performing schools to settle a lawsuit that claimed the…

Free USC tuition to students with $80K or less family income

February 20, 2020 9:42 AM The Associated Press

The University of Southern California will phase in free tuition for students from families with an annual income of $80,000 or less.…

Body of second firefighter killed in library fire believed to be set by teens found

February 19, 2020 10:47 AM Avery Johnson

A fire captain has died and another firefighter is unaccounted for after they responded to a fire believed to be set by…

Judge rips PG&E for poor safety record leading to wildfires

February 19, 2020 6:09 PM The Associated Press

A federal judge says executives for a California utility blamed for huge wildfires in recent years have put greed before safety.…

ICE rejects California law, arrests people at courthouse

February 19, 2020 5:58 PM The Associated Press

U.S. immigration agents have arrested two people at a Northern California courthouse, flouting a new state law…

California governor: Lower bar for forced mental health care

February 19, 2020 10:28 AM The Associated Press

alifornia’s governor is expected to call for better mental health care to help the state’s huge homeless population when he…

Police looking for burrito-throwing man in San Francisco

February 18, 2020 12:45 PM Avery Johnson

Police in San Francisco are looking for a man who was caught on camera throwing items at restaurant employees and reportedly injuring one of…

California to apologize for internment of Japanese Americans

February 17, 2020 11:32 AM The Associated Press

California legislators are expected to pass a resolution condemning the state’s role in the U.S. government’s internment of…

Man wanted in connection to Tulare shooting arrested in Santa Cruz County

February 14, 2020 5:11 PM Avery Johnson

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office arrested the suspect in a Tulare attempted murder…

Dry winter may mean no repeat of ‘superbloom’ chaos

February 14, 2020 1:30 PM The Associated Press

Southern California’s dry winter isn’t good for wildflowers and that’s OK with officials in the city of Lake Elsinore where last…

Police arrest 2 teenagers in killing of 2 boys in California

February 14, 2020 1:20 PM The Associated Press

Authorities say two teenage gang members have been arrested in the November killings of two boys that…

Sen. Bernie Sanders releases video aimed at California PG&E customers promoting Green New Deal

February 13, 2020 2:40 PM Avery Johnson

Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of the Democratic presidential candidates, released a video on Twitter Thursday aimed at California…

California to move some condemned inmates off death row

February 13, 2020 12:35 PM The Associated Press

More than 700 condemned inmates on the nation’s largest death row will soon have a chance to transfer to one of…

Drought returns to California due to lengthening dry winter

February 13, 2020 10:53 AM The Associated Press

Drought has returned to California due to a significantly dry winter.…

Coronavirus cases top 60,000, new case reported in U.S.

February 12, 2020 4:53 PM Avery Johnson

(KION) Chinese health officials in the Hubei Province have reported 242 new deaths and 14,840 new cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, bringing the…

California sees rise in distemper cases among wildlife

February 12, 2020 1:16 PM The Associated Press

California authorities are warning pet owners of an unusually high number of canine distemper virus cases in wildlife populations statewide.…

Monterey Regional Airport announces flights to Orange County, Burbank

February 11, 2020 5:50 PM Avery Johnson

The Monterey Regional Airport announced that it will be adding seasonal hop-on flights to Orange County and Burbank starting in…

Evacuee from China tests positive for coronavirus in San Diego

February 10, 2020 6:32 PM Avery Johnson

n evacuee from Wuhan, China, has been diagnosed with the coronavirus in San Diego, according to CBS…

San Francisco official in corruption probe resigns his post

February 10, 2020 5:10 PM The Associated Press

A San Francisco official charged with public corruption for trying to steer public contracts and taking pricey gifts has…

CDC: At least four people quarantined at Travis Air Force Base show possible symptoms of coronavirus

February 7, 2020 5:02 PM Avery Johnson

Five people evacuated from China who were quarantined at Travis Air Force Base are “symptomatic” and have been taken to local…

Lawmaker questions California Lottery’s ‘Ellen’ giveaway

February 7, 2020 12:55 PM The Associated Press

A state legislator wants an audit of the California Lottery to look into a whistleblower complaint about more than $200,000 worth of…

Probe: No outward engine failure in Bryant helicopter crash

February 7, 2020 11:59 AM The Associated Press

Federal investigators say wreckage from the helicopter that crashed last month and killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven…

Victims: PG&E still has rickety power line near Paradise

February 6, 2020 1:38 PM The Associated Press

Pacific Gas & Electric is still operating a rickety power line near the one that ignited a 2018…

Actor Kirk Douglas dies at 103

February 5, 2020 3:39 PM Avery Johnson

Actor Kirk Douglas died at the age of 103, according to his son Michael…

Five Monterey County men plead guilty to conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery

February 4, 2020 6:56 PM Avery Johnson

Five Monterey County men have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit an armed bank robbery in Modesto, according to U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott.…

Dog sleuths sniff out crop disease hitting citrus trees

February 4, 2020 11:14 AM The Associated Press

Scientists have trained dogs to sniff out a disease that’s harming citrus trees in Florida, California and Texas.…

California bill seeks takeover of nation’s largest utility

February 3, 2020 4:40 PM The Associated Press

A California lawmaker wants to transform the nation’s largest electric utility into a publicly owned company.…

First Bay Area case of coronavirus confirmed in Santa Clara County

January 31, 2020 1:31 PM Avery Johnson

The first Bay Area case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Santa Clara County, according to the CBS affiliate in San…

Santa Cruz police arrest suspect in LA Koreatown homicide

January 29, 2020 6:05 AM Shannon Longworth, Avery Johnson

The suspect in a Los Angeles domestic violence homicide was in the Santa Cruz County Jail after he turned himself in to Santa Cruz police…

Kobe Bryant, three others officially identified by coroner as crash victims

January 28, 2020 5:14 PM Avery Johnson

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office officially identified Kobe Bryant, John Altobelli, Sarah Chester and pilot Ara…

California bill treats suspects 19 and younger as juveniles

January 28, 2020 5:03 PM The Associated Press

A proposed law in California would raise the age people are automatically tried as adults in criminal cases to 20.…

Top San Francisco city official charged in corruption case

January 28, 2020 1:55 PM The Associated Press

A top San Francisco official has been charged with public corruption in schemes that include offering a bribe for space at the airport, providing…

Kobe Bryant reportedly killed in helicopter crash

January 26, 2020 12:09 PM Amelia Rosenberg

TMZ is reporting that basketball star Kobe Bryant is dead at 41 after being involved in a helicopter crash Sunday morning.…

Los Banos neighbors speaking out about projectile suspect

January 27, 2020 3:05 PM Josh Kristianto

Former neighbors of Charles Kenneth Lafferty, the man arrested in connection with the series of projectile attacks along Highway 101 and SR…

California unemployment rate held steady at 3.9% in December

January 24, 2020 11:40 AM The Associated Press

California’s unemployment rate held steady at the record low 3.9% in December.…

California bill would make utilities pay some blackout costs

January 23, 2020 6:04 PM The Associated Press

A bill in the California Legislature would require electric companies to reimburse customers when the utilities turn off power to prevent wildfires.…

Firefighters who died in Australia were on California tanker

January 23, 2020 2:56 PM The Associated Press

California’s governor says the three American flight crew members who died when their aerial water tanker…

California’s monarch butterflies critically low for 2nd year

January 22, 2020 5:35 PM The Associated Press

A count by an environmental group shows the western monarch butterfly population wintering along California’s coast remains critically…

California asks for surplus federal land to house homeless

January 22, 2020 2:41 PM The Associated Press

California is asking the Trump administration to provide surplus federal land that could be used to build housing for the…

4 killed in plane crash at Southern California airfield

January 22, 2020 1:58 PM The Associated Press

Authorities say four people have been killed in the crash of a small airplane at a Southern California airfield.…

Better Ask Barry: How is tech addressing food freshness?

January 21, 2020 5:50 PM Barry Brown

The employees at Mission Produce in Oxnard need to move quickly.…

California considers declaring common pain killer carcinogen

January 21, 2020 10:44 AM The Associated Press

California is considering whether to label one of the United States’ most common drugs a carcinogen.…

Get Hooked Restaurant Week kicks off in Monterey

January 20, 2020 5:26 PM Max Tarlton

Today kicks off the 2nd annual Get Hooked restaurant week in Monterey. The week-long event aims to increase awareness about access to local,…

CHP airplane captures Santa Rosa sideshow, 4 arrested

January 20, 2020 3:03 PM Avery Johnson

Three sideshows around Santa Rosa were broken up after a multi-agency response that included a CHP…