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After three years of closures that shuttered different sections of Highway 1, truncating the 100-mile drive between Carmel and Cambria, the area has seen a surge in tourism that officials want to ensure doesn't overrun the area. As of this month, restaurants and retail locations in Big Sur have seen about a 40% surge in weekend crowds compared with 2025 levels, and hotel revenues up 200% from last year during the spring season, according to new data from Caltrans.

Advocates, like Mousharrafie from the student club, want to keep it open until 2045.  "We need to build huge amounts of clean power cause the climate crisis is a now issue," he said.

Newsom signed the order Thursday, which directs the state to develop new tools to track AI's impact on employment, including a report on early warning signs of workforce disruption, a public dashboard monitoring changes across sectors, and expanded business input in monthly jobs reporting, according to a news release.

San Francisco operates a Housing First model, the same philosophy Ireland has adopted but has struggled to fully implement. The principle is simple: people cannot stabilise their lives until they have a home. Everything else, from addiction treatment to mental health care and employment support, follows only after housing is secured. The San Francisco version, however, is delivered with a high level of intensity and resourcing.

On Wednesday, at a closed meeting, San Diego City Council members unanimously voted to settle a lawsuit filed by a collection of San Diego homeowners who previously had trash picked up from their single-family homes for free. Rather than pay to fight the lawsuit in court, the city settled, agreeing to slash trash fees and end paid parking at Balboa Park by Jan. 1, 2027. The settlement will result in a $2.2 million revenue loss for the upcoming fiscal year, according to the Times of San Diego.

After facing financial issues due to the excessive payments, the couple called the FBI and realized that they were being scammed. They were informed that there were no such agents with those names. The Hatas reported the scammers to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Experts warn that law enforcement will never call and ask for personal information. It's important to verify a caller's authenticity by contacting your local police station before taking any action.

LAPD Capt. Warner Castillo said officers responded at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday to a call about an unresponsive child in the 1200 block of McCormick Street. He said Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics were providing medical aid to the child when officers arrived. Paramedics pronounced the child dead at the scene.

On Tuesday at around 4 p.m., first responders were notified that a 37-year-old man was unconscious on a section of the Kalalau Trail known as "Crawler's Ledge." This section of the trail is known for its steep cliffs, slippery slopes and narrow trail, where some hikers choose to crawl, hence the nickname.

California has a problem "boiling in the background" because refiners in India are cutting back production of alkylate, Patrick De Haan, the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, told SFGATE. The chemical is a key blending component in the state's gasoline blend. He said California has become "more reliant" on overseas production of alkylate.

Last July, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a landmark law shielding apartment and residential projects from lengthy environmental review processes to boost the state's housing supply and improve affordability. It's working but not without a fight. Developers wasted no time seizing the opportunity. A growing list of housing developments are securing exemptions from reviews under the 1970 California Environmental Quality Act, which environmentalists and not-in-my-backyard groups used to stall or stop projects.

Residents in San Jose's West Valley will soon gain access to Waymo's autonomous ride service as the company prepares to launch operations across approximately 60 square miles in the coming weeks.

Board member Rowena Chiu said supporting Measure B on June 2 is a symbolic way for voters to show trust in board members, who are working to make changes amid tumultuous times. Measure B "is a moral good and a public good" that represents the community's support for its children, Chiu said.

Police said the shooting at the mosque was preceded by a call by the mother of one of the shooters to police in the morning saying that the boy had run away with her weapons and vehicle and that she feared he was suicidal. As police were searching for the boy, additionally alarmed by information that he was dressed in camouflage and had a companion, reports arrived of a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, some 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the city center.

Police began receiving calls regarding an active shooter there around 11:40 am PT Monday. A reunification point has been set up at 4125 Hathaway Street, police said.

Bianco said one of his top priorities as governor would be to kill the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA. He'd also get rid of the Coastal Commission and the California Air Resources Board. Those are some of the state's bedrock environmental protections. "Those are the issues that cause our cost of living to go up," Bianco said.

As night fell over southern Colombia, and a group of children began their weekly Tuesday football match, a drone appeared overhead. The children looked up, and the drone dropped a grenade, its blast killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring 12 more civilians. The child's death, in southern Cauca in 2024, marked the first known time a person in the country had been killed in a weaponised drone attack. He would not be the last.

A longtime signature gatherer will plead guilty to paying homeless people on Skid Row to help get initiatives on the ballot, federal prosecutors said Monday, part of an effort to crack down on what they claim is widespread voter fraud across the state. Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong,64 of Marina Del Ray, agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of paying a person to register to vote, prosecutors announced Monday. She faces up to five years in prison.

Crews are responding to a vegetation fire on Altamont Pass Road between Livermore and the Mountain House/Tracy area that broke out Sunday afternoon.

An eight-year-old girl was found unresponsive in a San Jose home that was investigated previously for child neglect and squalid conditions. Sources said a girl and another child in the home were malnourished and got most of their meals at school. San Jose authorities are investigating the case of an eight-year-old girl who is currently on life support after being found unconscious and not breathing in a home on the 1200 block of Lancelot Lane, as Bay Area News Group reports.