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Driverless cars won’t be ticketed in last-minute about-face for CA state bill
A California bill that would have allowed for self-driving cars to be ticketed for traffic violations was amended just days before the year’s legislative session is scheduled to adjourn. Driverless car companies like Waymo and Cruise still will not be ticketed under the amended bill. Rather, law-enforcement agencies will...
Tourism to Lava Beds and Tule Lake National Monuments Contributes $6,968,000 to Local Economy.
TULELAKE, Calif. – A new National Park Service report shows that 136,164 visitors to Lava Beds and 2,731 visitors to Tule Lake National Monuments in 2023 spent a total of $6,968,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 79 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $7,794,000.
CA passes bill requiring schools to devise plan to ban or limit phones during the school day
The California legislature passed a bill this week requiring all public schools to come up with a plan to limit or ban phones during the school day, and Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to sign it into law.The Phone-Free Schools Act, introduced by Assemblyman Josh Hoover, would give the state's public schools until July 2026 to come up with a plan to implement a ban or other limits on smart phones.Schools, for example, could require students to put phones in a locker or sealed pouched during school hours. The bill, however, does include some exceptions.Schools would not be able to...
Hospital in Southern California to shutter labor and delivery department
Nurses in a Riverside County hospital say they’re worried about their pregnant patients, many of whom are from underserved communities, after learning that the facility’s labor and delivery department will be shuttered in the coming months. Officials at Hemet Global Medical Center delivered the news that the obstetrics department would be suspended for at […]
California bill to give people serving life sentences a second chance at freedom stalls in the legislature
SACRAMENTO, Calif — A bill that would have granted people serving life sentences in California prisons a second chance at freedom will not be moving forward this year. Senate Bill 94, by State Senator Dave Cortese, would have allowed certain people serving life without parole (LWOP) an opportunity to petition to have their sentences changed.
Bill to prohibit the use of medical debt in credit reporting awaits Governor’s signature to become law
A bill authored by State Senator Monique Limón that stops medical debt from impacting a person's credit score is now only awaiting the Governor's signature to become law. The post Bill to prohibit the use of medical debt in credit reporting awaits Governor’s signature to become law appeared first on News Channel 3-12.
Patriot Day 2024 events in California's High Desert honor fallen of 9/11
Patriot Day events in the High Desert will honor the memory of those who died during the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, 2001. On that day, terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes, deliberately crashing two into both towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City, according to the...
Workers breach key Klamath dams, allowing salmon to swim freely the for first time in a century
Workers have breached the final dams on a key section of the Klamath River, clearing the way for salmon to swim freely through a major watershed near the California-Oregon border for the first time
CA legislature passes bill to let undocumented students work at public colleges
(The Center Square) - The California legislature passed a bill allowing undocumented students to work at public college campuses, just one day after the California Senate approved making undocumented immigrants eligible for up to $150,000 in state home "loan" programs. In January, California’s state public healthcare system expanded coverage to all undocumented immigrants, whose MediCal coverage is expected to cost $5 billion this year. “California is home to 83,000 undocumented students,” said State Sen. Maria Elena Durazo on the Senate floor hearing on August 20....
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