Ford pays $19M to settle claims on fuel economy, payload
Ford Motor Company on Tuesday settled claims by 40 U.S. state attorneys general that the company made misleading claims about the fuel economy and…
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Board rejects Arizona death-row prisoner’s clemency bid
Arizona’s Clemency Board has declined to recommend to Governor Doug Ducey that the death sentence of a man convicted in the 1984 kidnapping and…
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California parents could soon sue for social media addiction
California could soon hold social media companies responsible for harming children who have become addicted to their technological…
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Effort to ban ballot drop boxes fails in Arizona Senate
An effort by some Arizona Senate Republicans to ban the use of ballot drop boxes has…
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Russia claims to have taken full control of Mariupol
Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol on Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine, after a nearly three-month siege…
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New rules about guns on movie sets fail in California
New rules about how and when actors can use guns while filming failed to pass the California legislature on…
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California man becomes next to plead guilty to Capitol riot charge
A California man who stormed the U.S. Capitol, opened the doors to other rioters and sat in the senate chair of then-Vice President Mike Pence…
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Despite surplus, analyst warns of California ‘fiscal cliff’
Despite announcing a record-smashing budget surplus of nearly $100 billion on Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to spend that money…
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Arizona state senator slammed for Buffalo shooting comments
The Arizona Senate has opened an ethics investigation into Senator Wendy Rogers who tweeted inflammatory comments about last weekend’s racist…
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Experts say Arizona executioners took too long to insert IV
The lethal-injection death of Clarence Dixon at the state prison in Florence on Wednesday appeared to follow the state’s execution…
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Governor Ducey urges social media firms to fight smuggling
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey is calling on social media companies to better police their platforms for people recruiting drivers to smuggle immigrants…
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California lays out plan to drastically cut fossil fuel use
In California’s ambitious climate change goals over the next two decades, new homes built in California starting in 2026 need to be powered by…
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New Arizona law: insurance must cover cancer biomarker tests
A bill signed into law by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey requires health insurers and the state’s medicaid plan to pay for so-called “biomarker…
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Governor Ducey signs bill giving $400M for I-10 project
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed legislation that earmarks $400 million in state general fund cash to add a third lane in each direction to a…
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LinkedIn settles with U.S. over alleged pay discrimination
The career-networking service LinkedIn has agreed to pay $1.8 million in back wages to hundreds of female workers to settle a pay discrimination…
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Millions must cut water use in drought-stricken California
Southern California’s gigantic water supplier took the unprecedented step of requiring about 6 million people to cut their outdoor watering to one…
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Ducey signs bills limiting school mask, vaccination rules
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed legislation that prohibits government agencies from requiring Covid-19 vaccinations and bars schools from…
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Labor officials say Phoenix Starbucks engaged in unfair labor practices
Federal labor officials have asked a judge to force Starbucks to reinstate three union activists at its Phoenix location, alleging that the coffee…
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Arizona judge nixes suit that wants Trump backers off ballot
A judge in Phoenix has dismissed lawsuits seeking to disqualify three Republican lawmakers from this year’s ballot because they participated in or…
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California set to keep workplace pandemic rules through 2022
Workplace regulators in California are poised to extend mandatory pay for workers affected by the Coronavirus through the end of…
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