Category: California
Electricity Bills in California Will Soon Be Based on Income …
The Sierra Club ‘s proposal would come to, on average, $28 for PG& E customers, $37 for SCE customers and $30 for SDG& E customers. The environmental group has historically opposed flat fees. “It …
1 dead, 6 wounded in deadly mass shooting at Antioch birthday party
The shooting is the second mass shooting to happen in the San Francisco Bay Area in just over 48 hours. Nine people were injured Friday night in a mass shooting at a Mission District block party …
Manhunt launched after 9 injured in ‘targeted’ San Francisco mass shooting
June 10, 2023, 2:12 AM PDT. By Joe Kottke and Leila Sackur. A manhunt has been launched by police in San Francisco after nine people were shot in a “targeted and isolated incident” Friday …
El Niño has arrived, which may make Southern California wetter – Los …
But El Niño can also have knock-on effects in California and across the world, including economic and agricultural effects.. A study published last month found that the 1982-83 El Niño …
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-09/el-nino-has-officially-arrived
San Francisco shooting leaves nine wounded after ‘targeted’ incident …
Sat 10 Jun 2023 08.41 EDT. Multiple victims were struck by bullets during a mass shooting in San Francisco’s Mission District on Friday night, but authorities said there were no fatalities …
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/10/san-francisco-shooting-nine-wounded
Two of SF’s largest hotels are given up by owner — here’s why
San Francisco Travel, the city’s convention bureau, expects Moscone Center conventions to account for over 670,000 hotel room nights this year, higher than 2018’s 660,868 room nights but far …
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/two-s-f-s-largest-hotels-given-owner-18136504.php
Downtown San Francisco is at a tipping-point – The Economist
San Francisco’s recovery ranks last. The office-vacancy rate is nearing 30%, a record high. These woes could spread beyond the city centre. Downtown generated at least 75% of the city’s GDP in …
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/05/25/downtown-san-francisco-is-at-a-tipping-point
California’s earliest Black settlers bought land only for it to be …
California’s founding involved the often violent acquisition and theft of land from Native people, including an 1851 order from the state’s first governor that “a war of extermination …
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-californians-stolen-land-reparations-rcna84970
Facebook, Instagram to block news stories in California if bill passes
The standoff in California is the latest scuffle between the tech giants and the news industry. Facebook and Google also resisted efforts in Australia and Canada that aimed to force the companies …
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/31/1179184256/news-facebook-california-journalism-preservation-act
Worker: Closing downtown Old Navy store victim of ‘out-of-control …
Repeating an all too familiar story in downtown San Francisco, another major retailer has become the victim of rampant shoplifting with the Old Navy store getting hit up to a dozen times a day.