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Voters have been good to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. For the past two decades, she has won elections to the California Assembly, to Congress and to the mayoralty she now holds. She has never lost an election.
Dr. Shira Fischer, a physician who works in health policy in Boston, sought a speech pathologist for her child in 2022, when virtual appointments became the norm because of COVID-19.
With an El Niño winter threatening heavy rain, the State Auditor warns that California’s aging dams “continue to pose a risk to public safety,” especially in the Bay Area, San Diego, and Los Angeles areas.
Three decades ago, as the 20th century was winding down, a culture war erupted over the use of human embryos in researching stem cell cures for dreaded diseases.
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Roughly a mile north of San Francisco, on Alcatraz Island, thousands gathered in the early hours of Monday to celebrate Native American resilience, reports CalMatters’ Melanie Henshaw.
In a dim storefront near downtown Fresno, a family gathered to mourn.
In 2014, residents and environmental groups argued in a lawsuit that a California Department of Transportation road project planned to run through Richardson Grove State Park failed to properly evaluate how it could harm the redwood trees.