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The Raley’s Companies, a West Sacramento-based grocery chain with deep roots in Northern California, has announced plans to close two stores. The closures add Raley’s to a growing list of retailers adjusting their footprints in 2026. The Raley’s Companies to Close Stores in California. ​Raley’s will permanently...

A counterfeit currency blitz that quietly began in the fall of 2025 has now emerged as one of the most striking fake cash busts of early 2026, with investigators tying a string of bogus $100 bills to 12 In‑N‑Out restaurants across Southern California. Police say the scheme relied on quick hits, small orders and...

California veterinarians and local officials are racing to contain a deadly bacterial threat that has already killed dogs and sickened others across the state. The latest alarm centers on leptospirosis, a disease that can rapidly damage a dog’s kidneys and liver and, in some cases, spread to people. As warnings...

January 18, 2026 - SACRAMENTO, CA — On Friday, Assemblymember Diane Papan (D–San Mateo) introduced Assembly Bill 1557 to strengthen California’s electric bicycle safety laws by clarifying that all e-bikes must be limited to 750 watts of maximum peak motor power, closing a loophole that has allowed increasingly...

Homeowners in California captured the moment their ceiling collapsed as an atmospheric river inundated the state with rain.

For years, electric vehicles have carried a simple promise: even if they cost more up front, they will pay you back every time you skip the gas station. A recent post in r/TeslaModelX challenges that assumption in a way that feels uncomfortable precisely because the math is not theoretical. It is lived, tracked, and...

California’s AB 1085 bans license plate tints and flippers while raising fines for sellers

Ever feel like you’re being watched? If you own a home in California, you probably are. By satellites. By drones. By your insurance company. For years, insurers have been using aerial imagery to snoop on your roof. Your yard. That trampoline you bought the kids last summer. And often, they use those grainy, zoomed-in...

A former San Luis Obispo real estate lawyer who faces several disciplinary charges filed by the State Bar of California, including partaking in a “scheme to defraud,” resigned from the Bar on Monday. John Belsher has been an attorney in California since 1982. He now lives in Arizona. He was business partners with...

California’s most dangerous faults are not always announced by headline-grabbing shocks. Instead, they often whisper through swarms of tiny earthquakes that most people never feel but that quietly redraw the map of seismic risk. Those subtle vibrations are now exposing hidden structures beneath the state’s...