The unions and Kaiser Permanente are close on a four-year total – 21.5% offered by Kaiser compared to 25% sought over four years by the unions. But the unions want nearly half of those increases – 12% – to occur in the first year.

The National Weather Service had issued the warnings for Northern California and parts of southern Oregon after the quake was detected at 10:44am off the coast of Ferndale, about 250 miles north of San Francisco.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that has implications for how much power California officials have over homeless camps.

The Times profiled 30 people, who talked about their experience with homelessness, part of an effort to illuminate the challenges and occasional mundanity of unhoused people’s lives.

The three states agreed to protect patients from other states seeking reproductive health care as well as safe access to contraceptive and abortion access, and also to refuse to cooperate with states that have laws punishing either people seeking reproductive health care or doctors who provide reproductive care services like abortion.

California is one of four states, including Oregon, Minnesota and Tennessee, along with Washington, D.C., that have proposed new laws.

The mandate, which takes effect Saturday and is expected to last a month, requires most Californians to stay home from 10pm to 5am.

Records suggest that Rowena Turner violated federal election law by voting in both Oregon and California several times since 2010.

Nancy Nordland told police that they have the wrong suspect, reportedly asking: “Do I have a twin walking around somewhere?”