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Fire Map: Track California Wildfires 2025 - CalMatters
Map of active wildfires burning across California. Explore wildfire history and when fire season starts in California.
Newsom signs 800 new California laws, vetoes 183 bills - CalMatters
Oct 1, 2024 · Sweltering heat intensified by climate change threatens not only farmworkers and inland communities, but school children, too, reports CalMatters’ Alejandra Reyes-Velarde.Though Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have created a master plan to make schools more climate resilient, voters in November will decide on Prop. 2, which would allow the state to borrow $10 billion to repair school ...
Californians: Here’s why your housing costs are so high - CalMatters
Oct 15, 2024 · California is an expensive place to call home. It’s such a fundamental part of California life it almost feels silly to say. Along with good weather, sunny beaches, Hollywood and the Golden Gate Bridge, the skyhigh cost of housing has become part of …
California may expand who can issue psychiatric 5150 holds
Jan 30, 2024 · That’s the rationale behind Wahab’s Senate Bill 402, which passed out of the 40-member Senate Monday.Republican Sen. Janet Nguyen of Huntington Beach cast the lone “no” vote. The bill would expand those who can issue 72-hour involuntary confinements to psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists and clinical counselors. In each county ...
Health care in California: How almost everyone has insurance
Sep 4, 2024 · Almost everyone in California has health insurance. That trend reflects about a decade and a half of policymaking designed to expand access to health care.The state’s average uninsured rate has dropped from nearly one in four Californians in 2009 to less than one in ten today.. At the start of 2024, Democratic lawmakers led California to become one of only two states in the nation to offer ...
Everything to know about California’s $16.50 minimum wage
May 28, 2024 · The California minimum wage is increasing to $16.50 on Jan. 1, 2025. The state requires fast food restaurants and health care employers to pay workers even more.
Here’s your guide to voting in the 2024 California election
Feb 6, 2024 · The California Senate swore in a new leader Monday — Mike McGuire, who succeeds Toni Atkins of San Diego as president pro tem.. As CalMatters Capitol reporter Alexei Koseff explains, the Healdsburg Democrat will help direct budget and policy decisions that will likely impact millions of Californians. Along with Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas of Hollister, the top two legislative leaders are ...
New California eviction law: Renters get longer to respond
Sep 25, 2024 · Lea esta historia en Español. Tenants in California will have twice as much time to respond to eviction notices and potentially avoid losing their homes under a bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom today.
Will new regulations resolve CA's home insurance crisis? | Opinion
Dec 17, 2024 · A man stands in the middle of a street at the Seminole Springs mobile home park in Malibu Lake in Los Angeles after the Woolsey Fire roared through the community, on Nov. 10, 2018.