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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is expected to tout a newly passed carbon credit offset plan during a conference this week. The governor is expected to sign the bill Tuesday.

The popular social media app TikTok has sued Montana after the state banned the platform due to concerns over its parent company ByteDance's ties to China.

The family and friends of Beau Mann, a tech CEO who died under mysterious circumstances, are demanding answers after his body was found over a year after he disappeared.

California officials are investigating the disappearance of 30 tons (61,000 pounds) of ammonium nitrate from a railcar crossing the Midwest.

Across the country, cell phone data is being used to track the rate of downtown recovery post-pandemic in a new study. The study showed the southern part of the U.S. is bouncing back.

Forbes recently compared the anger various American airports evoke from people using them for air travel and found John Wayne Airport in California irritates travelers the most.

TikTok claimed the move by Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte to ban the app in his state violates the First Amendment rights of hundreds of thousands of users.

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet proposed to create a Federal Digital Platform Commission having broad powers to regulate social media and digital content platforms.

San Francisco said on Wednesday it reached a $230 million settlement with Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc over its role in the city’s opioid epidemic.

Strippers at Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood succeeded in unionizing following a 15-month battle amid allegations of an unsafe work environment.

While California's film industry is filled with "so many regulations," Dennis Quaid persuades Texas voters to pass a state bill aiming to incentivize productions to move to Texas.

California's reparations task force is calling on lawmakers to raise the state's minimum wage, already the nation's second highest at $15.50, to a "living wage."

"Charles in Charge" and "Happy Days" star Scott Baio says "safety is the issue" that primarily convinced his family to move from "trapped" California to "free" Florida.

Nevada lawmakers have crafted a bill that would provide massive tax credits in an attempt to bring film production to the Las Vegas area.

More restaurants are turning to robot servers to combat the national shortage of food industry workers – a lasting effect of the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the service industry.

Austin Sherrell was reportedly terminated from his job as a courtesy clerk at a Vons grocery store in Bakersfield after applying for worker's compensation following three assaults.

The Supreme Court handed California a legal victory Thursday in a dispute over its animal welfare law, a ruling that could have huge national implications.

A Los Angeles-area police department is switching its fleet to Tesla vehicle, authorities said this week. The Pasadena Police Department will by 20 Teslas for patrols.

Proponents of the California bans say that lifting all protections would exacerbate homelessness in cities with some of the country’s highest housing costs.

Two managers at a Big Lots in Bakersfield, California, were reportedly fired after they attempted to wrangle a shopping cart back from a homeless man who allegedly stole Tide pods.