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KERO 23ABC News
April 29, 2018
Surprise coming home at California City Tortoise Days Parade. Alexa Reye. 7:02 PM, Apr 28, 2018. Share Article. Autoplay: ... California City held their Tortoise Days Parade Saturday. This one however involved a special surprise. Master Sergeant Lanora Archuleta had been on deployment but was able to reunite with herÃâà...
Ventura County Star
April 29, 2018
Not too far removed from this date 70 years ago, Port Hueneme became Ventura County's sixth official city. It was a place born of big dreams and big plans, and in the ambitions of a man from Pennsylvania. Whether the city has realized its early vision as an international player might depend on how oneÃâà...
The Bakersfield Californian
April 29, 2018
During a meeting that went on past midnight on Tuesday, the City Council decided not to move forward at this time with authorizing Stockwell to begin notifying employees of the elimination of their positions. Instead, the council will hold several workshops next month to try to come up with alternatives toÃâà...
KERO 23ABC News
April 28, 2018
CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. - UPDATE (April 28, 2018 3:00 p.m.). California City Police have identified the driver of the Chevy Tahoe that struck the ambulance as 31-year-old Keith Zeldon Taylor of Palmdale. Police believe that the passenger in the Tahoe was Taylor's 4-year-old son was the child ejectedÃâà...
OCRegister
April 28, 2018
Gubernatorial candidate and Assemblyman Travis Allen has photos taken with supporters as he announces the receipt of more than 35,000 petitions he has received from across the state encouraging local elected officials to opt out of California's sanctuary-state law while speaking at the Huntington BeachÃâà...
Bakersfield Now
April 26, 2018
California City is struggling with finding a way to fund its operations after an annual parcel tax that covered 66 percent of the city's general budget was taken away. The original parcel tax in California City started in 1998, with people paying $75 annually per parcel of land. The tax was then doubled in 2012Ãâà...
CityLab
April 3, 2018
In March, the small city of Los Alamitos was the first to announce that they would put their commitment to federal law over state regulations, drafting an ordinance that would let them opt out of state-level sanctuary laws. Emboldened, other cities in Orange and San Diego Counties are drafting exemptionÃâà...
NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS
March 30, 2018
In this Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, file photo, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents serve an employment audit notice at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Los Angeles. There's been backlash to the state's effort to protect immigrants from stepped up deportations under the Trump administration.
New York Times
March 30, 2018
(Want to get California Today by email? Here's the sign-up.) The Oakland Cannery is just the type of place that the city likes to promote as its heart and soul. The former Del Monte fruit processing facility has for several decades served as a live/work space for painters, musicians, fashion designers, writersÃâà...
Government Technology
March 30, 2018
As more cities weigh seismic retrofit laws — to protect both lives and the region's limited housing supply — many owner and tenant groups in the Los Angeles ... “What happened last year in Mexico City, we don't want to experience in California,” David Khorram, Long Beach's superintendent of building and safety, said ofÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 29, 2018
A 22-year-old, unarmed black man shot to death by police in his grandparents' backyard in Sacramento, California, will be buried on Thursday - and city officials are girding for more protests. The Reverend Al Sharpton plans to give the eulogy at funeral services for Stephon Clark at the Bayside of SouthÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 29, 2018
A number of cities big and small in Southern California are taking steps to identify seismically vulnerable buildings for the first time in a generation, acting in ... “What happened last year in Mexico City, we don't want to experience in California,” David Khorram, Long Beach's superintendent of building andÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 28, 2018
At a packed public hearing, the county's board of supervisors—all Republicans—also voted to support a federal lawsuit against California's so-called ... The move came days after another municipality in the conservative-leaning county, the small city of Los Alamitos, approved an ordinance to opt out of theÃâà...
Bend Bulletin
March 23, 2018
Willow Village will be wedged between the Menlo Park neighborhood of Belle Haven and the city of East Palo Alto, heavily Hispanic communities that are among Silicon Valley's poorest. Facebook is planning 1,500 apartments, and it has agreed with Menlo Park to offer 225 of them at below-market rates.
Palm Beach Post
March 23, 2018
The former mayor of a California city was arrested Thursday for violating the terms of a protective order issued against him, KTXL reported. >> Read more trending news. Anthony Ray Silva, 43, who was the mayor of Stockton, faces charges of being in possession of a registered gun at his home.
Business Insider
March 23, 2018
After a marijuana penny stock startup bought a California ghost town with the goal of turning it into a pot tourism destination, the company ran out of money to develop the project. Last August, Business Insider reported that American Green, a marijuana-focused technology company and consultancy, purchased theÃâà...
WIRED
March 23, 2018
To some, Montecito might just seem like a town hit by a string of superlatively bad luck. But to people crunching the numbers it looks less like an outlier and more like an inevitability of climate change. If you want to see what California looks like in the future, you don't need a crystal ball. You just need to hopÃâà...
Immigration Blog (blog)
March 22, 2018
The enclave of Los Alamitos within Orange County is bucking California's pseudo-secession "states' rights" fever on the matter of sanctuary for illegal aliens. On March 19, the city council voted to opt out of the provisions of the California Values Act (SB 54), which on its face prohibits all state, county, and cityÃâà...
ABC News
March 22, 2018
Waves of rain are expected over the next two days in California, with the heaviest hitting the southern part of the state. Interested in Weather? Add Weather as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Weather news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Weather. Add Interest. For Montecito, California, whichÃâà...
CNBC
March 21, 2018
The small city of Los Alamitos votes to exempt itself from California's so-called "sanctuary state" law, which took effect in January. One critic of the opt-out move says the Southern California city will find itself "on the wrong side of history." Los Alamitos' mayor says at least 13 other cities in the state areÃâà...
OCRegister
March 20, 2018
After Stanton residents voted to increase their own sales tax in 2016, the city's finance director crowed to his fellow municipal finance directors about his city's ... Cities throughout our state have been using Orwellian tactics to “suppress” opposition to tax increases through coordinated and premeditatedÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 6, 2018
Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program, for the Department of Water Resources, right, plunges the snow survey tube into the ... California emerged only last year from a historic five-year drought that forced mandatory water conservation for cities and towns, dried wells, andÃâà...
CityLab
March 6, 2018
Cities around the world are dealing with severe housing shortages and inflated housing costs. But nowhere is housing such a potent political issue as in California, whose unique geography, state policies, and activist culture have combined with a poorly distributed economic boom to create a “perfectÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 6, 2018
A nearly-century-old Southern California hospital that sits on an active earthquake fault will close because it can't meet state earthquake safety requirements, officials said Monday. Community Medical Center Long Beach announced it has submitted a four-month lease termination notice to the city, whichÃâà...
Immigration Blog (blog)
March 6, 2018
She's a radical leftist who doesn't even pretend that the city is willing to work with ICE on certain serious crimes. Oakland last year withdrew any cooperation with ICE even on investigations of sex-slavery and drug-smuggling. If she were asked under oath who told her about the upcoming raids, she'd likelyÃâà...
Patch.com
March 5, 2018
A total of 16 California cities ranked among the top 50 healthiest American cities, according to the report. Three cities in California made the top 10. San Francisco claimed the top spot, followed by San Diego in 4th place and Irvine in ninth. According to the data, San Francisco has the most walking trails perÃâà...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
March 4, 2018
MALIBU, Calif. — Malibu has banned single-use plastic straws, stirrers and cutlery. The City Council voted Monday to approve an ordinance prohibiting the sale, distribution and use of the plastic items starting June 1. Mayor Rick Mullen has said it's an effort to stop plastic pollution at the source so it doesn'tÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
December 31, 1999
As recommended by the League of Cities and other authorities, Santa Cruz issued a bond to pay down its rising pension liabilities, set aside funds to cover increasing demands from the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), shifted some employees into lower-benefit pension plansÃâà...
Marketplace.org
December 31, 1999
The old farming town made headlines for going bankrupt in 2012, and for decades it has been trying to diversify its agriculture-based economy. Stockton is now about to experiment with a new way to sustain residents: Universal Basic Income or UBI. “I feel that as mayor it's my responsibility to do all I couldÃâà...
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