Voters in the San Francisco Bay Area, California’s most unaffordable region, are set to vote on a record-breaking affordable housing bond. Will state Democrats add a pro-union requirement to win over a powerful labor coalition?
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California is giving schools more homework: Build housing for teachers
Some California agencies are offering incentives and hosting workshops for school districts that want to build affordable housing for teachers.
Posted inHousing & Development
Californians: Your rent might go up because of rising insurance rates
California’s landlords see rising insurance costs, so they say they’re going to have to raise rents. But they complain about laws that limit how much they can do so.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
‘We gotta be somewhere’: Homeless Californians react to Newsom’s crackdown
Homeless Californians and activists say authorities are cracking down harder on encampments, after getting the green light from the Supreme Court and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Republicans target Kamala Harris’ ‘California-ness.’ Do swing-state voters care?
Vice President Kamala Harris must defend her California roots and record against attacks by the Trump campaign. Voters and politicians in the swing states of Michigan and Arizona say that might not be the deciding factor.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
TikTok, Brat and Kamala Harris: Will newly fired-up young voters flip elections in California?
Young voters in California and across the country are excited about Vice President Kamala Harris. Democrats are trying to capitalize, counting on a surge at the polls to win key congressional races.
Posted inHealth & Wellness
EPA bans DCPA, dangerous herbicide used on California crops
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday banned a weed killer known as DCPA or Dacthal, a chemical used for decades. It can harm babies’ developing brains, and farmworkers and people living near fields are most at risk.
Posted inHealth & Wellness
UC students push for a place to get — and stay — sober on every campus
The University of California’s student government wants every campus to have a collegiate recovery center, programs that offer support groups and other tools to help students battle addiction. Right now half of the system’s 10 campuses – UC Santa Cruz among them – have such a center.
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California battles onslaught of wildfires with help from mutual aid: ‘More resources than rest of U.S. combined’
With the monster Park fire blazing through Butte, Plumas, Shasta and Tehama counties and other intense blazes elsewhere in California, first responders must play an intricate chess game in maneuvering firefighters and equipment from around the United States.
Posted inEducation
California’s two biggest school districts botched AI deals. Here are lessons from their mistakes.
Educators can learn caution mistakes with artificial intelligence in Los Angeles and San Diego. But they also face pressure to adopt AI technology quickly.