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LONG BEACH, Calif. – A ticket with five numbers, but missing the Mega number, in Friday evening’s drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery was sold at a Long Beach convenience store and is worth $651,609, the California Lottery announced. Another ticket with five numbers, but missing the...

SAN PABLO – State lawmakers hope a minimum wage of $25 for all healthcare workers in California will help with a shortage in that industry, introducing legislation this session at the Capitol.Workers say they are living paycheck to paycheck at the moment and have taken on a second job to help cover expenses. "I love being a community healthcare worker in pre-natal," said Chante Jones, a pre-natal community healthcare worker at a medical center in San Pablo. "I am there to educate parents, teen parents, to let them know about their body. And to let them know that somebody is...

Two gray wolves living in Siskiyou County have been successfully captured, collared and released and will provide the first satellite information on California’s wolf population since the summer of 2022, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. When the two wolves were captured by the CDFW on March 17, they fitted them with […]

California is right now one of the American states with the highest gasoline prices, a product of taxes and environmental regulations. For this reason, the Democrat Gavin Newsom, governor of the state, promoted a proposal that seeks to combat fraud in the price of this fuel. This proposal was recently approved in a special session of the California State Senate.

(KRON) — The Bay Area crowned its new Miss Oakland, California this month, and she's the first to be crowned in ten years. The new Miss Oakland, is also a member of the LGBTQ community. Rhiannon Jones joined KRON4’s Stephanie Lin live to share more about her journey.

Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state’s #CaliforniansForAll College Corps program which has so far provided $10,000 grants to some 6,500 low-income college students as a stipend in exchange for their community service work. Nearly a year after the paid-service program was announced, the governor’s office is praising...

Your weekly news roundup of stories you might have missed. Five California Cities Sign First Partner’s Equal Pay Pledge. Caption: Kimberley Ellis, Director of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women speaking at a press conference March 14 in Sacramento. Standing behind her is First Partner Jennifer Newsom and Government Operations Secretary Amy Tong. Photo by Felicia Rule.

We've all got memories of the good old days, but when was the last time you saw some evidence that they happened? The prolific digital media, like home movies, TV broadcasts and radio shows of last century created a sea of ephemera that captured life in California. It's recent history, sure, but it's also important cultural knowledge, according to archivists, and preserving it is a race against time. An anonymous...

SAN DIEGO — Several San Diego breweries were awarded gold medals at the 2023 Brewers Cup of California this week. That may not come as a surprise as America’s Finest City is known as “The Capital of Craft” with more than 150 brewery locations throughout the county, according to the San Diego Brewers Guild.

Retired Court of Appeal Justice Norman Epstein, who was appointed to judgeships by four governors, died Friday at age 89, the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District announced. Epstein was a state deputy attorney general from 1959 to 1962 before becoming the general counsel and vice chancellor of the California...

I guess we can look on the bright side. Our roads aren't officially the worst. The online financial site, moneygeek.com did research of on America's urban infrastructure, and was able to determine the states with the best and worst roads in the country. Not surprisingly, the research found that more...

President Biden's push for Americans to buy electric vehicles continues to hit the barrier of the average person's wallet — a reality highlighted by a new report out of California.

It sounds easy: Just pick five little numbers. But they have to be the right numbers, of course. Somebody got it right at a gas station in California. Whether they picked their “favorites” or let the computer pick for them is not known. However they were chosen, all five of the winning numbers were on a California Fantasy 5 ticket for the March 24, 2023 drawing.

California officials are pushing to expand the financial protections available to farmers in the upcoming federal farm bill as the state’s massive agricultural industry contends with drought, wildfires and other weather extremes. “The farm bill is a safety net,” Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, said at a State Senate…

Ocean salmon fishing season is set to be prohibited this year off California and much of Oregon for the second time in 15 years.

With the recent record rain and snowfall totals across the state, it takes a bit more imagination to focus on California’s growing need for increased water infrastructure. To this end, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) has announced grant awards to nine projects in six counties through the Urban Community Drought Relief Grant program.

According to a recent study led by the North Carolina State University (NC State), droughts and heatwaves are likely to make air pollution worse for Californian communities that already have a high pollution burden, thus deepening pollution inequality along racial and ethnic lines. However, the experts argued that financial penalties for power plants could significantly reduce people’s exposure to air pollution, except during extreme heatwaves.