Brian Reeves has spent seven years repairing phones and gadgets from a booth inside the Bayshore, watching businesses vanish one by one. "Business has been dropping steadily," he told SFGATE, blaming the loss of anchors like Sears: "There was quite a few businesses in the mall … brought a lot of people, and then they closed down."

Paradise, California, is slowly recovering from the devastating 2018 Camp Fire. The town is rebuilding homes and schools, but academic recovery is proving difficult.

LA County Sheriff Robert Luna, the son of immigrants, says the raids are impacting him personally and are "difficult to watch."

Immigrant rights activists are warning that the Trump administration is transporting immigration detainees to a private prison in the California desert that is operating illegally and could put detainees in danger.

California has the tallest trees (coast redwoods), the biggest trees (giant sequoias) and the oldest trees (bristlecone pines) in the world. If you think 175 years is a long time, some bristlecone pines are thought to be almost 5,000 years old.

The Trump administration sent troops to the Los Angeles area in early June after days of protests over immigration raids.

The coronavirus has muscled its way back into headlines in recent weeks amid a summer wave of the illness and growing difficulties in getting the vaccine, as well as efforts by the Trump administration that could make getting inoculated harder for some people.

San Jose was the investor’s overall favorite metro in California, according to this metric. In the last 18 months, investors averaged 47% of all single-family home purchases in San Jose. That share compared with 27% in 2015-23 – a 20-percentage-point jump. So San Jose also witnessed the second-largest increase across the 26 markets tracked.

California electric vehicle drivers will lose carpool lane privileges on September 30 after the Trump administration declined to extend a 25-year program.