Plus, if community solar projects are built with lithium-ion batteries, they can store solar power for after dark and help California keep the lights on without those gas plants whose shutdown deadlines the Newsom administration has kept extending. Win, win, ...
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for California late Wednesday morning as a large winter storm powered by an atmospheric river arrived.The declaration "will allow the state to respond quickly as the storm develops" in addition to providing support for local j...
Newsom stopped short of calling California's budget deficit a "crisis," but the Democratic governor’s proposal to pull more than $13 billion from the state’s reserves would require him to declare a "fiscal emergency." The proposal, outlined during a Wedn...
- Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced he's going to Israel, drawing praise from major Jewish community groups following the Hamas attack on that country two weeks ago. "I'm on my way to Israel," he posted to X. He said he'll be meeting with those impacted...
The US state of California is planning to launch a digital driving license that users will be able to store in a digital wallet on their smartphone, the state governor Gavin Newsom has revealed. Newsom said that the service would begin rolling out “in just a matter of months” as part of...
Gavin Newsom imposed a moratorium on executions in 2019 and shut down the state’s execution chamber at San Quentin. A year ago, he moved to dismantle America's largest death row by moving all condemned inmates to other prisons within two years. RELATED: NY Republican leaders call for ...
She said, "It got louder and louder and so they had some sliding glass doors that they were able to close, so then it was a closed-off room but you could still hear them with how loud they were." "I just happened to look over and realize hey is that Gavi...
Newsom's name has been circulated alongside Whitmer's this past week as a possible replacement nominee for Biden. Politico Magazine reported July 1 that "someone close to a potential 2028 Whitmer rival for the Democratic presidential nomination" said Whitmer had said Michigan was no...
"While the politicians in Washington can't get anything done because of being stuck in these ideological foxholes, we here in California have two governors from two different parties, together in the same room fighting for the same green energy future," Schwarzenegger said at the summi...
New poll shows Newsom leads with 1 in 3 voters undecided By Seema Mehta (Nick Ut / Associated Press) In the race to replace termed-out Gov. Jerry Brown, the largest number of voters in a new statewide poll does not favor a candidate in the race. About 1 in...