A project to install solar panels around the Mojave Desert has begun cutting down thousands of Joshua trees, much to the residents’ chagrin. The Los Angeles Times reported several citizens across Boron and Desert Lake have begun noticing effects from the Aratina Solar Project, a 2,300-acre government-approved plan to produce clean energy through solar panels....
California Republicans share some blame for the poverty, homelessness and crime currently plaguing the state, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez argued. Though Lopez acknowledged how Democrats “deserve to be on the hot seat” based on their current control in all statewide offices, he explained “none of that happened overnight, nor did it happen exclusively...
California officials blamed then-Attorney General Kamala Harris for the state’s soft-on-crime policies after a small-town mayor and council member were reportedly attacked at random by a homeless criminal. Marysville Mayor Chris Branscum and City Councilman Dom Belza were both allegedly assaulted by the suspect during the daytime attack last month. Branscum said he was standing...
California lawmakers have passed a second plastic bag ban after admitting the state’s first ban failed its goal of reducing plastic waste. State Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, and Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, D-Orinda, told The Los Angeles Times more sweeping legislation was needed to address a “loophole” in the initial legislation, which actually led consumers to...
FIRST ON FOX: California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a controversial bill that would have given hundreds of thousands of dollars in housing loans to illegal immigrants. Last month, the California legislature advanced AB 1840, known as the “California Dream for All” loan program, which would have given illegal immigrants up to $150,000 in first-time homeownership...
Brianna Kupfer’s alleged killer is on trial for her murder two years after the brutal stabbing of the 24-year-old UCLA student. Kupfer, an architectural graduate student, was working alone at Croft House, a boutique furniture store in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park, Jan. 13, 2022, when Shawn Laval Smith allegedly entered the store and stabbed her...
The Wall Street Journal editorial board slammed the city of Berkeley’s attempts to raise the cost of installing gas stoves in commercial and residential buildings. “Democrats insist they aren’t coming for gas stoves, but look at how the People’s Republic of Berkeley is trying to tax them into obsolescence,” The Wall Street Journal wrote in...
The criminal trial of first son Hunter Biden on federal tax charges was expected to get underway in normal order Thursday, until the younger Biden said he intended to plead guilty to the charges in a shocking twist. Special Counsel David Weiss charged President Biden’s son with three felonies and six misdemeanors concerning $1.4 million...
First son Hunter Biden released a statement Thursday after he pleaded guilty to nine federal tax charges, saying he did so to “spare” his family from being “publicly humiliated” by a trial. “I went to trial in Delaware not realizing the anguish it would cause my family, and I will not put them through it...
A student at a Pennsylvania college has made it her mission to ensure that her hometown’s war veterans will not be forgotten – even if it’s been centuries since their deaths. Danielle Russell, who is originally from Gilroy, California, is a senior at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Russell told Fox News Digital in a...
