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.
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.
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.
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.
A year after San Leandro Police Chief Angela Averiett was accused of swiping the side of another car in the East Bay then driving off, she now faces misdemeanor charges and has been put on administrative leave. San Leandro's police chief, Angela Averiett, is now on administrative leave after being charged with misdemeanor hit-and-run Tuesday, stemming from an incident in Dublin last May, which was initially reported by ABC 7's Dan Noyes and covered by SFist in April.
Lake Tahoe's local electricity provider, California-based Liberty Utilities, has been obtaining 75 percent of its power from the Nevada-based company NV Energy. But the latter has said it will stop providing power to the Lake Tahoe region by May of next year, according to extensive reporting by Fortune.
