Lassen County Times

HDSP, CDCR high-security areas placed on modified program

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is placing Level IV high-security sections within its facilities on modified program in response to a surge in violence against staff and ...
Lassen County Times

HDSP and other CDCR facilities placed on modified program

According to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, effective immediately, CDCR has placed all Level III and Level IV facilities on a modified program in ...
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

House Reconciliation Bill Proposes Deepest SNAP Cut in History, Would Take Food Assistance Away From Millions of Low-Income Families

As a share of the program, the cut would be about twice the size of the deep cuts to food assistance enacted in 1996. [2] And these extreme cuts are deeper than the $230 billion in cuts the budget ...
NBC Los Angeles

Measure ER passes, set to increase LA County sales tax for public health care

The Los Angeles County ballot measure to increase the county sales tax by a half-cent has passed, with the "yes" vote surpassing "no" by some 24,000 ballots. With the majority of the votes tabulated ...
Big Island Now

Student-led summit connects local youth with global peers through science, technology, engineering, math

Dr. Steve Colbert, a marine scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, works with students to identify trash from Japan that floated to Hawaiʻi. (Courtesy of Hawaiʻi International Science ...