California’s 2018 wildfire season is one of the most destructive on record. More than 7,500 fires burned nearly 2 million acres of land so far this year — the most land burned in a single year since records have been kept.
Paul C. Lo and his family came to America from Laos in the 1970s as part of a huge wave of Hmong refugees — ethnic villagers pushed out of Laos by communist forces during the Vietnam War. Lo, who is now 45 years old, was recently named the first Hmong American judge in US history.
Officials in California are partnering with their Canadian neighbors in British Columbia, as well as officials in Washington and Oregon, to try and reduce their production of climate change-inducing gases. While the announcement last week was met with much fanfare, the details remain to be seen.
Filipino Americans played an important and early role in reforming the farm movement — a role that hasn't been widely acknowledged. A new law in California aims to put them in the history books.
As immigration reform continues to percolate, some states and communities are taking measures of their own. In California, the state senate approved a bill that, if it becomes law, would prohibit local agencies from working with a specific federal immigration program.
Criticism of S-Comm is growing, with cities and entire states, including California, now resisting the program. Adrian Florido, from the public radio collaboration Fronteras, reports.
Several Republican presidential candidates are promoting the idea of a flat tax -- a system where everybody pays the same tax rate. The idea of a flat tax isn't all that novel or original. Lots of other countries have one.
California legislators passed a budget Wednesday, just hours before a midnight deadline. Dr. Bruce Cain, professor at U.C. Berkeley and Director of the University of California Washington Center tells us why the budget issue this year is different.
California's new Governor Jerry Brown, is not saying yet whether he’ll accede to demands from the left to tighten up the state’s impending carbon-trading system.