Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey is headed for a November runoff with the former district attorney of San Francisco, George Gascón.
Yolo County has adopted new restrictions on industrial hemp. In a 4-1 vote, the Board of Supervisors banned hemp manufacturing, processing, and storage.
Local governments and school districts will have some tough decisions to make.
Santa Clara Communications and Public Affairs Director Leticia Gómez is among the latest local officials to be diagnosed with COVID-19.
After a lengthy meeting this month, the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors sent a draft hemp cultivation ordinance back to the Planning Commission to be revised.
L.A.'s sheriff says none of the inmates are considered threats to public safety.
Legal and public safety concerns are taking front and center in L.A. County, where the coronavirus pandemic has led to a dispute over the status of gun stores.
In a letter to President Donald Trump last week, Governor Gavin Newsom said he expects 56% of Californians to contract the coronavirus over an eight-week period.
All but one of California’s 977 public school districts have shut their doors in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Los Angeles County will join San Francisco, Alameda, and Contra Costa in cancelling millions of dollars in administrative fees charged to former convicts.
Until now, the worst of the coronavirus crisis has mostly been centered in the nation’s big cities: New York, Detroit, parts of L.A. County, and now New Orleans.
$2.86 million flowed into Santa Barbara County coffers last quarter as a result of commercial cannabis.