2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (404+ words) California has officially run out of combinations for its current license plate sequence, ending a string of plates dating back to the 1980s. The state’s license plate sequence for the past 46 years has consisted of one number, followed by three letters,…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1766+ words) Cheryl Palumbo was out shopping for herself and her husband last week to pick up some items she had forgotten the day before at the supermarket — and couldn’t quite believe her bill. The 78-year-old retiree had already spent $150 and here…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1307+ words) When California’s groundbreaking law on single-use plastic passed in 2022 to address the growing scourge of plastic pollution, it had broad political support. There was the state Chamber of Commerce, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a powerful ocean advocate and Californians Against…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (785+ words) When Costa Mesa leaders were considering in 2021 how an influx of retail cannabis sales tax revenue under Measure Q might benefit the city’s denizens, they envisioned a program that would help first-time homebuyers enter an otherwise formidable housing market. As…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (583+ words) A bill that would have allowed California insurers to track motorists driving habits in exchange for potentially lower rates has come to a dead end. The Consumer Driving Data Protection Act, proposed by Assemblymember Tina S. McKinnor (D-Hawthorne), failed to make…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1281+ words) Jeff Bezos got hit with a notice for about $244,000 in overdue L.A. County taxes and fees on his luxury jet. A private aircraft that, according to flight tracking database JetSpy, is linked to Rihanna racked up a roughly $104,000 bill for unpaid…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (488+ words) Help is on the way for California’s film and TV postproduction workers. A bill, known as AB 2319 and aimed at supporting the industry’s editors, sound mixers, composers and visual effects artists, passed the Senate on Sunday, marking the state’s first-ever…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (779+ words) ‘Of the child safety measures agreed to in Meta’s landmark legal settlement, no category contains more detailed requirements than its commitments on age assurance — and for good reason. No matter how well the protections work, they are of little use…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (487+ words) State lawmakers have approved a series of modest changes intended to bolster California’s film and TV tax credit program. Among the key revisions, independent filmmakers would be exempted from the $5 million state corporate tax credit cap that was approved earlier…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1225+ words) In 2025, a New York resident filed a lawsuit against JetBlue Airlines. The lawsuit included a screenshot of a tweet from X. In it, a user complained to JetBlue that they were trying to “make it to a funeral” but that flight…...