Author: Tori Richards, Washington Examiner

Plans to build tiny housing for the homeless in a San Francisco parking lot are being derailed over excessive costs and resident complaints. The city planned to build 70 cabins at approximately $100,000 each in the Mission District as a way to put a dent in the homelessness crisis. Supervisor Hillary Ronen thought the area…

A San Francisco-area school district hosted a social event for employees of color, adding that white colleagues were not to be included due to uneasiness and mistrust. The Acalanes Union High School District in Contra Costa County hosted the event on Feb. 8 to welcome the new year, according to an email that was shared…

Los Angeles County’s new sheriff has created an Office of Constitutional Policing to help eradicate lawbreaking deputy gangs and excessive use of force. “I want to make sure everybody understands that this is a challenge that this department has faced for decades,” Sheriff Robert Luna said Thursday. “It’s not going to be solved overnight. It’s…

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was charged with murder after he sped through a school zone at nearly 95 mph and caused a crash killing a 12-year-old boy, the district attorney said. Deputy Ricardo Castro was also charged Wednesday with vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving stemming from the 2021 car crash in the city…

San Francisco wants to spend an additional $27.6 million this year in police overtime to make up for the shortage of officers, the city announced. The funds will backfill a 12% decrease that began in 2019 and swelled the following year when Mayor London Breed announced San Francisco was defunding the police in the wake…

A leading national police official has attacked California lawmakers over a new bill seeking to ban police dogs in situations involving arrests or crowd control on racial grounds. The bill, AB 742, was introduced Monday by Assemblyman Corey Jackson (D). It claimed black people were 3 1/2 times more likely to be bitten by a…

This is the third of a three-part Washington Examiner series on California’s aging infrastructure and its impact on the lives of residents after years of failed spending programs and neglect from elected officials. California’s roads are struggling to stay up to standard — despite the state spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on every mile…

A California black bear cub that escaped from a rescue center is running loose in the ski resort city of South Lake Tahoe, the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife said. Seiad, a rescued black bear cub, escaped from the Tahoe Wildlife Center on Feb. 9, 2023. California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife The 13-month-old…

Thousands of oil industry workers are bound to lose their jobs in the coming years as California shifts toward green energy, but a $60 million displacement and training fund will not get any new cash in the coming fiscal year. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2023-24 budget proposal has no funding for the displaced workers who are…

Republican lawmakers are blaming Congress and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) for California’s water infrastructure mess that floods during rainstorms and sucks farmers dry during the rest of the drought-infused years. Recent rainstorms that have destroyed coastal towns, killed 22 people, and caused the collapse of interstate highways could have been mitigated if dozens of state…