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Roughly half of Californians with private health insurance receive medical care from Kaiser Permanente.

Water providers say rebates for residential areas are costly and many people refuse to remove their lawns. The rules aim to save enough water for more than a million households a year.

VTA now projects the cost of the final phase of extending BART into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara will be more than 30% higher, and take three years longer, to 2036, to complete.

The health system failed to reach a new contract agreement with some of its unionized employees, who today began a three-day job action at Kaiser facilities in California and several other states.

Student workers at the 23-campus CSU system say their pay is low, their hours are restricted and they get no sick pay. They are hoping to join the employees union to fix that.

Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West said if its 75,000 members strike for three days at Kaiser facilities in seven states, it could be the nation's largest ever healthcare strike. 

Despite life-saving efforts, two were pronounced dead at the hospital. The third's status was later updated to non-life threatening, police said.

By late Sunday, the governor’s office confirmed that his appointment to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein would be free to run for a full term in 2024.

Striking workers would have been eligible to collect California unemployment benefits under a bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed. He said the state can’t afford it. 

The death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein means that Gov. Newsom has to decide who will fill her seat. He has said he would appoint a caretaker, not one of the three Democrats who are already running.

The former president railed against Democrats and again claimed the 2020 election was rigged, even though he lost California by nearly two-to-one. The GOP's 2023 state convention also heard from Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy.

More than half a million fast-food workers, mostly minorities and women, will earn higher minimum wage, but some say that’s not a living wage.

The California Democrat, the oldest member of Congress, had suffered a precipitous decline in health in recent months.

Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a tax on firearms and ammunition, among other new gun control laws. California’s remaining gun manufacturers wonder if they have a future.

The state GOP is doubling down on its support for Donald Trump, inviting him to be its keynote speaker and adding rules for the March 2024 primary that make it possible for him to sweep all national convention delegates.