By Nick Cahill SACRAMENTO – Calling on California to sever ties with the private prison industry, a state lawmaker wants to nix contracts with for-profit prisons and ban the state’s public pension funds from ever investing in them again. Responding to the federal government’s “cruel immigration...

By Nick Cahill SACRAMENTO – Looking to greenlight a housing boom through a cash infusion for downtrodden local planning agencies, California lawmakers are promising a flurry of bills to fix the state’s housing crisis. On the first official day of the new two-year legislative session Monday, two Northern...

By Cameron Langford HOUSTON – George Herbert Walker Bush, the patriarch of a political dynasty, died in Houston on Friday. He was 94. He is survived by his children George W., Jeb, Neil, Marvin and Dorothy. His wife Barbara died earlier this year. “George H.W. Bush was a man of the highest character...

By Martin Macias LOS ANGELES – California Democratic Party chair Eric Bauman resigned Thursday in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations by former and current party staffers. Bauman, who was elected to lead Golden State Democrats in May 2017, said in a statement that it was “in everyone’s best...

By William Dotinga RIVERSIDE – A state appeals court in California on Tuesday vacated a trial court ruling that the Golden State’s physician-assisted suicide law is unconstitutional, finding the plaintiffs who challenged the 2016 law lacked standing to sue. The Fourth Appellate District did not,...

By Helen Christophi (CN) – Dealing a blow to vaccine opponents, a California appellate court upheld a 2016 state law repealing the personal belief exemption to California’s immunization requirements for schoolchildren. Four California parents and a California anti-vaccine group called A Voice for...

By Brandi Buchman WASHINGTON – A group of Honduran and Mexican nationals is challenging a proclamation by President Donald Trump that anyone who crosses the southern border between official ports of entry into the United States from Mexico would be ineligible for asylum. In a federal lawsuit filed...

By Matthew Renda The California State Auditor rebuked the agency in charge of implementing the state’s high-speed rail project Thursday, finding lack of planning and poor oversight has led to cost overruns plaguing the Golden State’s efforts. “Despite being aware of risks associated with beginning...

By Matthew Renda As election officials continue to count vote-by-mail ballots trickling into registrar offices up and down California, some of the most competitive races have been decided while several still hang in the balance. But one thing is clear: the blue wave seen in the Northeast all but evaporated...

According to officials at College of the Canyons, Ian David Long, the deceased suspect in the mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, attended COC during two different semesters – Spring 2013 and Spring 2015. Also, according to a social media account run by a COC news class, two COC students were at the...