california insider

Siyamak sits down with California's Assemblywoman Gail Pellerin, chair of the state Assembly Elections Committee, to discuss why the Golden State's election results take time. From verifying ballots to ensuring ...

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has announced new regulations aimed at reducing the environmental impact of gas. ...

More than a thousand homeless individuals died in Los Angeles County last year, with limited health care access ...

Jeffrey High recounts his journey from a stable upbringing in Newport Beach, California, to battling a devastating addiction ...

Many beaches in California are losing their sand, and the economic impact often goes unnoticed. Siyamak sits down ...

"It's a ticking time bomb. I am extremely concerned that people may begin to perish because of this," ...

"Will San Francisco come back? When you look at it with the 30 percent vacancy, you look at ...

California’s largest business and labor groups have recently come together to strike a deal on one of the ...

"I served 29 years and two months. I went in at the age of 16; I was arrested ...

"We only hire justice-impacted and unhoused individuals. We work directly behind Oakland Public Works. If you can go ...

"We're just allowed to double the amount of houses. There aren't left turn lanes big enough, there aren't ...

"Unfortunately, Latinos do worse than their Latino counterparts in other states. It's largely due to a failing public ...

"We were just getting fed up. Our security bill was $150,000 last year. We never had that. The ...

"We've seen people take over homes and warehouses to cultivate marijuana," says David Welch, a special counsel for ...

"San Francisco was a working little town with an enormous cash flow that was right for the boys ...

"In the COVID era, people ended up on unemployment and the federal government sent out about $100 billion ...

"Too many people are going to the FAIR Plan. Nobody should want to be in the FAIR Plan; ...

“She destroyed hundreds of deputies' careers; they used to call her the 'badge collector.' The effect of that ...

“If schools in Oakland continue improving at the rate they are currently, it's going to take four generations ...

"Short-term rentals [are] becoming a problem for residential communities in California. It's totally changed our neighborhood and the ...

"I constantly see these white buses coming down full of illegal immigrants who are claiming asylum. Not through ...

"Santa Monica is actually the third busiest hub in all of LA County for overdoses, and we're the ...

"I've sent an open letter to [California Gov.] Gavin Newsom. Not only have we seen the cost of ...

"It really has been the biggest dam removal experiment in modern history. People who were very much in ...

"It's being sold to the voters as treatment. But you've got $2 billion going into housing that can ...

'It's almost like we're living in an open-air mental health facility. There are people walking down the streets; ...

"It was advertised as being a panacea for homeless people. They're unlikely to use it." Siyamak sits down ...