California

A woman in California said she was denied service at a local Dunkin’ location because she’s deaf and asked employees to remove their masks so she could read their lips.

A nearly 13,000-square-foot oceanfront estate in southern California recently sold for just under $33.9 million, about 38% lower than its original asking price.

Designer Aurora James called her “Tax the Rich” dress for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “powerful message” — but it’s not one she has taken to heart.

Martin Diky said he panicked as a huge wildfire started racing down a slope toward his wooden house near Lake Tahoe.

A University of California, San Diego student obtained the cell phone accounts of at least 40 people in an effort to milk their cryptocurrency information from his dorm room and blackmailed one victim by threatening to release compromising photos, federal prosecutors said Monday.

The effort to fight a recall of California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has far outraised his closest GOP rival, and Newsom has enjoyed a boost with help from some big names in business.

Gubernatorial candidates California State Assemblymember Kevin Kiley, Riverside County supervisor Jeff Hewitt and YouTuber Kevin Paffrath stated their platforms to replace Gavin Newsom on "Kennedy."

Salesforce, an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, is offering to help employees who have concerns about access to "reproductive healthcare" to move out of Texas in light of the state’s new law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected around six weeks.

California recall candidate Kevin Paffrath says the meme stock subreddit r/wallstreetbets banned him without warning this week after a profile on his candidacy compared his popular YouTube channel to the viral retail investment forum.

New York and California were ranked among some of the least hard-working states in the country, according to a recent study examining America’s hardest-working states.

Republicans cried foul this week over $200 million earmarked in the House Democrats’ massive $3.5 trillion budget resolution for the Presidio Park in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district, according to reports.

California sent out the first batch of Golden State Stimulus payments this week, delivering payments to more than 600,000 residents.

Demand for electric vehicles has shifted investments into high gear to extract lithium from geothermal brine, salty water that has been overlooked and pumped back underground since the region’s first geothermal plant opened in 1982.

The number of businesses fleeing California is on the rise.

Hollywood megadonors are bankrolling Gavin Newsom's campaign to stave off a recall, with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings giving a whopping $3 million.

Some 175 artifacts and mementos from the Prohibition Era, including his favorite guns, vintage prints featuring the infamous crime lord with various members of his family, letters written by Capone to his son while at Alcatraz Island Federal Penitentiary.

A Bay Area booze distributor accused of paying a $500,000 bribe to get her son into the University of Southern California — and then bragging that it was “worth every cent” — has agreed to plead guilty in the college admissions scandal, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Top destinations for Californians leaving include Texas, Arizona and Nevada.

Utility firm Pacific Gas & Electric warned some customers in Northern California that it may have to “proactively turn off power for safety” this week amid weather conditions that increased the risk of wildfires in the region.

As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a deepening drought threatens one of the state's most profitable crops.