By Staff Reporters, KPBS-FM – San Diego, CA  Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trOjaYVjwYQ Jamie Court and other privacy advocates say people have the right to choose how their and their children's DNA is used.

By Staff Reporters, KOGO-AM – San Diego, CA  Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

By Dan Bacher, ELK GROVE NEWS https://www.elkgrovenews.net/2024/04/new-oil-drilling-permit-approvals-fall.html Newsom's regulators have issued a total of 15,940 well permits of all types since he took office in 2019. “At the same time, permits to redrill oil and gas wells plummeted 89% to 99...

https://youtu.be/Aeg054wX5g0 Scripps Mercy Hospital in Chula Vista says it's closing its maternity ward and moving those services to their Hillcrest location for the growing number of emergency patients.

By Staff Reporters, KQED-FM – San Francisco, CA  Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

By Stephen Hobbs, SACRAMENTO BEE https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article286759155.html In 2022, state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced he would force companies to offer discounts to people who take specific steps to protect their homes from wildfires. It was part of an effort, he...

By City News Service, EPOCH TIMES https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-unseals-warrants-in-case-of-botched-ladwp-billing-5631503 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A Los Angeles federal judge issued a final order today on an application to unseal 33 FBI search warrants and related documents that detail a probe into alleged unethical...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwVwBOOOF6E Jamie Court says there there's no question in 2022 to 2023, oil company profits were higher than they've been in the last 20 years, so for them to say they're making pennies is just malarkey.

By Dakota Smith, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-12/documents-unsealed-city-attorney-dwp-corruption More than 1,000 pages of confidential documents from a federal criminal investigation into the Los Angeles city attorney's office and the Department of Water and Power will be unsealed, a federal judge signaled...

Group urges the insurance commissioner to hold companies accountable By Kenneth Araullo, INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/environmental/watchdog-reiterates-call-for-fossil-fuel-disclosure-from-insurers-484613.aspx Consumer Watchdog has called for Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to enforce transparency from insurance companies regarding their insurance of fossil fuel projects, aligning with the broader climate...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H80Vy9FObt8 Last month, State Farm Insurance announced it would be dropping thousands of California policies beginning this summer, nearly a year after announcing it would no longer accept homeowner insurance applications in the Golden State.

By Jeremia Kimelman, CALMATTERS https://calmatters.org/digital-democracy/2024/04/california-legislature-gifts-travel/#:~:text=Free%20travel%20for%20legislators&text=Special%20interest%20groups%20and%20nonprofits,%24950%2C000%20in%20travel%20in%202022.

By Ruben Vives, LA TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-10/westside-l-a-hit-hard-as-state-farm-cancels-home-insurance Thousands of Californians who won’t see their home insurance renewed by State Farm this summer are homeowners in Los Angeles County, with some upscale Westside neighborhoods hit hard, according to the insurer’s recent filings...

By BLANCA BEGERT and CAMILLE VON KAENEL, POLITICO  https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate/2024/04/09/laras-forced-marriage-with-insurers-00151420 HOME FIRES BURNING: In Sacramento, Ricardo Lara is the state’s insurance commissioner who hasn’t yet stopped an exodus of property insurers fleeing increased costs fueled by climate change. But at the Hotel Indigo in downtown Los Angeles where...

By Staff Reporters, KCBS-AM – San Francisco, CA  Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

By JP Crumrine, INSURANCE NEWSNET https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/state-farm-continues-withdrawal-from-state Despite efforts by the state's Department of Insurance (DOI) to revise the rate making policies in California, on March 20, State Farm announced it would not be renewing more than 70,000 commercial, residential and...

By Mike Pangilinan, INSURANCE BUSINESS https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/property/consumer-watchdog-wants-mandatory-coverage-for-wildfiresafe-homes-483241.aspx A consumer advocacy group in California is pushing for reforms that would require insurance companies to provide coverage to homeowners who have taken steps to mitigate wildfire risks to their properties. In comments made before...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLsyrzTHydc Consumer Watchdog says, what you can do if you've been caught up in this is you can freeze your credit with the big three credit bureaus for free, and that makes it a little bit harder for someone...

By Emily Alpert Reyes, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2024-03-31/california-cosmetic-surgery Inside a clinic wedged next to a smoke shop in a South Los Angeles strip mall, Dr. Mohamad Yaghi operated on a 28-year-old woman who had traveled from Las Vegas to have...