Residents in a Northern California community are begging Gov. Newsom for help as crime runs rampant as Los Angeles continues to burn from wildfires.
A Southern California city just threw down the gauntlet against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s immigration policy. Huntington Beach, a city of around 200,000 in Orange County, passed a “non-sanctuary city” resolution that instructs law enforcement to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies as they ramp up their fight against migrant crime.
Trump and Newsom set aside their usual bitterness and say they will figure out how to work together on the region’s recovery.
In recent weeks, Trump and his allies — notably billionaire Elon Musk on his X platform — have attacked Newsom’s leadership and at times promoted misinformation about California’s response. And House Speaker Mike Johnson has suggested there should be conditions on federal wildfire aid to force changes in California.
On Friday Jan. 10, the governor’s official budget-proposal document was released, its numbers already incinerated. Going by those pre-wildfire numbers, on Jan. 13 the Legislative Analyst’s Office affirmed the budget was “roughly balanced.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom downplayed Donald Trump's nickname for him as the Los Angeles wildfires entered their second week
Amid threats to withhold federal disaster aid to California, President Donald Trump with tour the Pacific Palisades this afternoon.
After facing pressure from Southern California prosecutors, Gov. Gavin Newsom calls for looting to be a felony in fire evacuation zones as the blazes are not yet contained.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has expanded the focus of a special session he called to pass legislation safeguarding the state's progressive policies ahead of Republican President-elect Donald Trump's return to office.
Burn scars in areas of the Eaton Fire and Palisades Fire are of top concern, as the risk for mudslides, landslides, flash floods and debris flow is high in fire zones.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $2.5 billion disaster aid package on Thursday, Jan. 23, to help Southern Californians recover from the devastating wildfires that have ravaged Los Angeles County.