The California inspector general tasked with reviewing the state’s high speed rail program issued a new report stating the first segment is likely to be more than three years behind schedule and faces a $6.

DOGE certainly has high-speed rail in its crosshairs. Before DOGE co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy stepped down to pursue a run for governor of Ohio, he called high-speed rail “a wasteful vanity project, burning billions in taxpayer cash, with little prospect for completion in the next decade… Time to end the waste.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta told Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to continue providing services to transgender minors despite President Trump’s executive order.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a reminder to California hospitals and federally funded healthcare providers of their obligations under state law to provide gender-affirming care despite President Donald Trump’s executive order pulling federal funding from clinics providing those services to minors.

Citing the "dire" financial situation they're facing after the Los Angeles wildfires, State Farm General has asked California officials for an emergency interim rate increase. The rate hike could work out to an average increase of 22% for California homeowners,

Citing what it calls a potentially “dire situation,” State Farm asked California for permission to hike insurance rates by an average of 22%.

State Farm is asking California's insurance regulator to approve an emergency rate hike due to the number of claims it received after last month's devastating wildfires.