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Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet proposed to create a Federal Digital Platform Commission having broad powers to regulate social media and digital content platforms.

San Francisco said on Wednesday it reached a $230 million settlement with Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc over its role in the city’s opioid epidemic.

Strippers at Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood succeeded in unionizing following a 15-month battle amid allegations of an unsafe work environment.

While California's film industry is filled with "so many regulations," Dennis Quaid persuades Texas voters to pass a state bill aiming to incentivize productions to move to Texas.

California's reparations task force is calling on lawmakers to raise the state's minimum wage, already the nation's second highest at $15.50, to a "living wage."

"Charles in Charge" and "Happy Days" star Scott Baio says "safety is the issue" that primarily convinced his family to move from "trapped" California to "free" Florida.

Nevada lawmakers have crafted a bill that would provide massive tax credits in an attempt to bring film production to the Las Vegas area.

More restaurants are turning to robot servers to combat the national shortage of food industry workers – a lasting effect of the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the service industry.

Austin Sherrell was reportedly terminated from his job as a courtesy clerk at a Vons grocery store in Bakersfield after applying for worker's compensation following three assaults.

The Supreme Court handed California a legal victory Thursday in a dispute over its animal welfare law, a ruling that could have huge national implications.

A Los Angeles-area police department is switching its fleet to Tesla vehicle, authorities said this week. The Pasadena Police Department will by 20 Teslas for patrols.

Proponents of the California bans say that lifting all protections would exacerbate homelessness in cities with some of the country’s highest housing costs.

Two managers at a Big Lots in Bakersfield, California, were reportedly fired after they attempted to wrangle a shopping cart back from a homeless man who allegedly stole Tide pods.

PacWest Bancorp confirmed it is mulling options, including a possible sale while also insisting it has not experienced "out-of-the-ordinary deposit flows following the sale of First Republic Bank and other news."

Nevada’s Fontainebleau Las Vegas which began construction in 2007 and sat unfinished for many years due to the Great Recession is now set to open its doors in December 2023.

A DoorDash driver in Oakland, California was reportedly caught stealing a customer's order on video. The driver was seen dropping it off before picking it up and driving off.

Residents are fleeing blue states in droves and affecting the adjusted gross incomes of the states they are leaving and moving to, according to recent data released from the IRS.

A Brigham Young University-led study has found that AI language model ChatGPT is susceptible to simple mathematical errors and is often an unreliable accountant.

A whimsical, quirky house in Berkeley, California, also known as the "Saxophone House", is up for sale for nerly $2 million.

Disneyland and other parks are suspending fire effects worldwide after a 45-foot-tall Maleficent Dragon burst into flames during a live "Fantasmic!" show in Anaheim, California.