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Meta is preparing to block news for some Canadians on Facebook and Instagram in a temporary test that is expected to last through the end of June.

A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee is set to crown a champion, with 11 finalists gathering in a convention center ballroom outside Washington to demonstrate their mastery of Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged dictionary.

A California appeals court says Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten should be let out of prison on parole.

In California, members of an under-the-radar, minority religious community are stepping into the public eye to advocate for making the state the first in the nation to outlaw caste bias.

California regulators say the state is unlikely to run short of electricity this summer, thanks to new power sources and a wet winter that filled reservoirs to restart hydroelectric power plants shuttered during the drought.

Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday proposed a deal to significantly cut their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years.

California legislative committees in the Assembly and Senate blocked two big climate bills Thursday.

Disney cancels relocation of division from California amid ongoing fued with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has once again lost her bid to stay out of prison while she appeals her fraud conviction tied to a blood-testing hoax that bilked investors.

Federal regulators are suing to block biotech drug developer Amgen’s more than $26 billion deal for Horizon Therapeutics.

A former correctional officer at a federal women’s prison in California where inmates say they were subjected to rampant sexual abuse has been arrested and accused of abusing three inmates.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday the state’s budget deficit has grown to nearly $32 billion.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is returning to Washington after a more than two-month absence led to calls from within her own party for the oldest member of Congress to resign.

California’s bank regulator was too slow to see the growing risks at Silicon Valley Bank and did not act forcefully enough to get the bank to fix its problems.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has filed for bankruptcy due to hundreds of new child sex abuse claims, becoming the second diocese in California to do so.

Several Floridians were arrested and indicted in a year-long drug trafficking investigation called “Operation Ice Man,” according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

California’s historic reparations task force has voted to approve recommendations for possible payments to Black residents and a formal apology for the state’s role in perpetuating discriminatory policies.

Under a proposed rule change, foreign citizens and companies would need U.S. government approval to buy property within 100 miles of eight military bases.

California lawmakers have agreed to loan $150 million to financially distressed hospitals.

California is joining with law firms and advocacy groups to create a hotline that provides access to information and pro bono services for people who need legal help related to abortion.

California officials are suing a local government for not approving an apartment complex for people experiencing homelessness.

Federal wildlife officials are again considering whether a sage grouse species deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Each Friday, News4JAX will update players in Major League Baseball.

A federal judge has rejected a motion from Google to toss out the government’s antitrust case against it.

A lawsuit filed in state court alleges California's corrections agency routinely refers inmates who appear to be “foreign-born” to federal immigration authorities even if they are U.S. citizens.

California lawmakers have authored more than 30 bills in the Legislature this year to address fentanyl.

San Francisco is repealing a ban on city-funded travel to 30 states that it says restrict abortion, voting and LGBTQ rights after determining the boycott is doing more harm than good.

Authorities and his lawyer say rapper MoneySign Suede has died after being stabbed in a shower at a California prison.

A federal judge says former U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes was not defamed by articles published by Esquire magazine about his family’s Iowa dairy farm.

Facebook parent company Meta’s first-quarter results surpassed Wall Street’s modest expectations on both profit and revenue while the monthly user base of its flagship platform inched close to 3 billion.

California's Senate Judiciary Committee has voted in favor of legislation to outlaw caste discrimination statewide.

Google’s advertising malaise persisted during the first quarter while the internet company also grapples with advancements in artificial intelligence technology that threaten to undercut its dominant search engine.

A bipartisan congressional group from Nevada and California is asking the Biden administration to fast-track federal funds for a private company to build a high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area.

Actor Shannen Doherty has filed for divorce from her husband, Kurt Iswarienko, after 11 years of marriage.

An overwhelming majority of people in the United States say they have recently experienced an extreme weather event, and most of them attribute that to climate change.

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a Houston man for allegedly calling the office of California U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters several times last year and leaving voice mails threatening to harm the Democratic congresswoman.

Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder, who sought to replace the California governor in a failed 2021 recall effort, announced Thursday he is running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

Nevada legislative leaders said Thursday that they had little information about the Oakland Athletics’ plans to move to Las Vegas, beyond that a land purchase deal is in place, a funding bill is coming and there is no timeline for action.

President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next labor secretary, Julie Su, won praise at her Senate confirmation hearing as “a champion of the working class.”.

Legal marijuana growers along the West Coast are struggling with oversupply, low prices and limited outlets for selling their product.

A federal appeals court has overturned Berkeley, California’s first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing with restaurant owners who argued the city bypassed federal energy regulations when it approved the ordinance.

Health experts say it’s time for the government to finish what it started by banning menthol -- not just in cigarettes and cigars -- but all smoking products.

The “giant pothole” that Arnold Schwarzenegger filled on a street in his Los Angeles neighborhood was actually a trench dug for utility work.

States that are trying to position themselves as safe havens for women seeking abortions could be most affected by the latest court ruling restricting access to an abortion pill.

Boom! The views were spectacular and the streets had been canyons of snow for months. Entire buried to the roof line.

The Biden administration floated two ideas this week for how Western states and Native American tribes could reduce their water use from the dwindling Colorado River.

Coachella starts this weekend (and next weekend) and the schedule is finally out. It’s like they say, better late than never.

Authorities say the suspect who made threats against California's Capitol on Thursday shot a gun from his vehicle while driving through two Sacramento suburbs the night before.

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has returned to the New York prison system after spending nearly two years in California, where he was tried and convicted of raping an Italian actor and model.

Fed up by an enormous pothole in his Los Angeles neighborhood, Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up a shovel and filled it himself.

America's beekeepers have faced challenges during the unusually cold and wet winter in California's farm country.

California's Medicaid program will continue to pay Walgreens about $1.5 billion each year.

A growing number of state legislatures are considering banning the sale of cosmetics and other consumer products that contain the toxic industrial compound PFAS, so-called forever chemicals.

A bill in the California Legislature would ban five chemicals found in some of the most popular candy in the U.S. The bill by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel would ban chemicals found in candy like Skittles, Starbursts and Peeps.

California officials say they want federal disaster relief for the state’s salmon fishing industry after the 2023 fishing season for fall-run chinook or king salmon was closed for much of the West Coast.

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office says “Gangsta’s Paradise” rapper Coolio suffered an accidental death from the effects of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine last year.

Authorities say a man fleeing police in Northern California took two hostages at a public park, killing one of them before surrendering, after earlier wounding a California Highway Patrol officer.

California water officials say this year’s epic snowpack in the Sierra Nevada could top records.

Disney CEO Bob Iger has said any retaliatory actions by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature against the company that threaten jobs or expansion at its Florida resort is not only “anti-business.

A California lawmaker wants to end a ban on state-funded travel to states with discriminatory LGBTQ laws.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a new law that could penalize oil companies for making too much money.

Just years after labor activists persuaded a handful of states to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour, workers initially thrilled with the pay bump are finding their hard-won gains erased by inflation.

With water gushing through California’s rivers, some farmers have started devoting a portion of their land to capture these flows and let them seep into the ground.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration announced that electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal electricity production in the United States for the first time in 2022.

California lawmakers have approved the nation's first penalty for price gouging at the pump.

Lawmakers in states including Colorado, California, Texas and New York are taking big, legislative swings at the eating disorder crisis.

California prosecutors have dropped domestic violence charges against Justin Roiland, who created the animated series “Rick and Morty” and provided the voices of the show’s two title characters.

California state Sen. Aisha Wahab has introduced legislation adding caste as a protected category under the state's anti-discrimination laws.

A rare tornado left a line of damage across roofs of commercial buildings in the Los Angeles suburb of Montebello.

A strong late-season Pacific storm is bringing wind, rain and snow to saturated California as the first full day of spring shows little change from an extraordinary winter.

A relentless winter at Lake Tahoe has now etched its way into the history books as the Sierra's second-snowiest on record.

General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit has asked California for permission to test the cars across the entire state.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's latest plan for the state's homelessness crisis asks voters to fund a major expansion of housing and treatment for residents suffering from mental illness and addiction.

Mysterious streaks of light were seen in the sky in the Sacramento area Friday night, shocking St. Patrick’s Day revelers who then posted videos on social media of the surprising sight.

The U.S. Tennis Association says it hopes that Novak Djokovic will be able to enter this year's U.S. Open after missing it last year because he couldn't travel to the United States.

A new bill in the California Legislature would give legal protections to doctors who mail abortion pills to patients in other states.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to transform San Quentin State Prison, a facility in the San Francisco Bay Area known for maintaining the highest number of prisoners on death row in the country.

A potential casualty of the powerful rainstorms that drenched coastal California and flooded rivers is hundreds of acres of strawberries.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state will pay to build 1,200 small homes to help house the homeless population.

Record snowfall and rain have helped to loosen drought’s grip on parts of the western U.S., even pushing it out altogether in California after consecutive dry years.

San Francisco leaders have backed the idea of paying reparations to Black people to atone for slavery and the systemic discrimination that followed.

A U.S. judge says the National Marine Fisheries Service violated the law when it failed to develop a plan to prevent the harming of humpback whales by West Coast commercial fishermen catching sablefish.

A coalition representing the Maine lobster industry is suing an aquarium on the other side of the country for recommending that seafood customers avoid buying a variety of lobster mostly harvested in their state.

Now that’s a lot of Oscars!

More than 9,000 California residents were under evacuation orders Friday after a new atmospheric river brought heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds, swelling rivers and creeks and flooding several major highways.

Andy Murray grabbed the last three games to come back and beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4 across more than three hours in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open.

California men’s basketball coach Mark Fox has been fired following the worst season in school history.

The first in a new series of atmospheric rivers has pushed into California and forecasters warn that widespread heavy rain will raise the threat of flooding in a state still digging out from earlier storms.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is withdrawing a $54 million contract with Walgreens.

SpaceX is targeting Friday at 1:38 p.m. ET for a Falcon 9 launch of 51 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Tornadoes touched down in Texas and Louisiana as a powerful storm system that dumped snow in California moved eastward.

Tremendous rains and snowfall since late last year have freed half of California from drought.

House Republicans have introduced a bill to give parents more of a say in school curriculum.

California's coronavirus emergency declaration is ending.

More young adults are flocking to bigger cities, as older generations appear to be leaving them, according to an analysis of census data by ‘Today’s Homeowner.”

The leaders of a new House select committee on China are defending Democratic Rep. Judy Chu on Sunday after a GOP lawmaker questioned her loyalty to the U.S. based on her Chinese heritage.

Angela Bassett won entertainer of the year at Saturday’s NAACP Image Awards on a night that also saw her take home a television acting trophy for “9-1-1.”.

Twenty years into climate change efforts, California is now relying heavily on a controversial technology — capturing climate pollution from industry and piping it underground, where it's supposed to remain permanently.

Japanese American activists in their 70s and 80s are fighting for Black reparations as more U.S. cities take up atonement for slavery and discrimination.