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General Motors' robotaxi unit Cruise is offering to settle an investigation by a California regulator of the company's failure to disclose details about a pedestrian-involved accident.

An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing Friday shortly after takeoff when a large portion of the aircraft blew out in midair.

A Los Angeles bakery chain announced the closure of its stores on New Year's Eve, citing the rising costs of doing business in California.

A Burger King cook who went viral for posting about not missing work for 27 years has bought his own home with the funds raised by a GoFundMe campaign.

Beginning in 2024, California is offering free health insurance to more than 700,000 migrants living illegally in the state as it faces a $68 billion deficit.

Several Pizza Hut franchises in California will lay off delivery drivers across the state months before a new minimum wage law will go into effect.

Anti-Israel protesters in Oakland, California, smashed windows and spray painted "Free Gaza" and "Death 2 Zionism" on Starbucks and Walgreens locations.

The population of California posted a decline of about 75,400 people over 12 months ending July 1, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday.

Air travelers in Las Vegas will soon be able to test out a self-service security screening option, the Department of Homeland Security said.

The point-in-time homelessness count released by HUD found over 650,000 people experienced homeless on a single night in January 2023, an increase of 12% from 2022.

The maritime industry is booming, but employers are struggling to find qualified workers so organizations in Connecticut and Washington are training young adults to enter the field.

Microsoft's Activision Blizzard said this week it has settled a $54 million workplace discrimination lawsuit with the State of California.

An armed consignment shop employee scared off suspected would-be robbers when he pointed his gun at them and warned them he was armed, video shows.

General Motors' self-driving vehicle unit Cruise dismissed nine executives in December amid an ongoing safety investigation after a woman was struck and dragged by a Cruise robotaxi.

A bill introduced by Washington state Democrats would ban new gas-powered small engine lawn equipment, like leaf blowers, and could land violators in jail.

A Portland business owner’s store was vandalized a day after she created a display representing a variety of religious traditions in her front windows.

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office arrested a Chinese national suspected of running a gift card scam that allegedly pads foreign bank accounts with shoppers' money.

A small business owner in San Diego, California, earns over $1 million a year with a creative dog-grooming business that brings in clients from all over the U.S. Gabriel Feitosa shared his work.

California police are investigating carjacking at gunpoint of an Amazon delivery driver in Berkeley on Friday.

Stellantis announced it is laying off potentially thousands of employees at two U.S. Jeep plants in the coming months, blaming the move in part on California's emissions regulations.