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A bill that would ban California State University from replacing faculty with artificial intelligence could soon be on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk.

In certain parts of the country, you can buy a surprising number of things other than food from a drive-thru window. Guns in Texas, weddings in Nevada, margaritas in Florida. And now, if one California bill becomes law, cannabis.

More than 50-thousand people had to evacuate Orange County over Memorial Day weekend because a tank at an aerospace plant in the city Garden Grove was at risk of exploding. Now a new report from our partner CalMatters has found the chemical that could have triggered that explosion may fall outside California’s toughest safety rules.

California’s mobile crisis program is an initiative that sends behavioral health workers — instead of police — to respond to mental health emergencies.

In a move immigration and privacy advocates call a “betrayal,” California is preparing to share detailed information about its driver’s license holders with a national database that connects DMVs.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly opened another detention center in California’s Central Valley.

California counties can continue to dedicate the bulk of their federal homelessness funds towards permanent housing. The Trump administration had moved to shift these funding priorities towards temporary and sober housing instead. But that’s on hold…following a legal victory earlier this week. From our partners at CalMatters, Marisa Kendall has more.

Lawmakers are alleging a California State Library program — which was created to distribute books to young children — has spent a million dollars of taxpayer money without donating a single book. Adam Echelman, with our California Newsroom partner, CalMatters, has more.

Rideshare drivers sued Uber yesterday, asking a state court in San Francisco to bar the company from claiming its drivers are independent contractors.

A state agency created to help protect Californians who can’t take care of themselves is failing to fulfill its promise. That’s according to a new investigation from our partner, CalMatters. The agency…known as the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau…was put into place almost 20 years ago. It licenses fiduciaries. These are people who manage everyday responsibilities for elders and others who can’t handle these obligations themselves. Things like paying bills and keeping up with doctor’s appointments. Reporter Byrhonda Lyons has spent more than a year digging into the bureau and hearing from Californians who feel they’ve been wronged by fiduciaries.