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California state officials knowingly let oil and gas drillers dump 3 billion gallons of wastewater from fracking into underground aquifers that supply both irrigation and drinking water in the state’s San Joaquin Valley – a move that has both sides ...

Nearly 35,000 New York State residents have been stripped of their Second Amendment rights because they have been labeled “mentally unstable” – and several experts say the pool no doubt includes many people who are perfectly sane. There are now ...

State bureaucracy and big government apparently have put an end to the use of volunteer labor at farms and businesses in California – and shut down a small winery in the process. The owner of the winery is facing $115,000 ...

Police around the country are wanting to turn home and business private security cameras into surveillance devices to monitor activity on streets and other public places. New technology can give cops instant access to video from homes and businesses. The ...

Supporters of the “State of Jefferson” have taken a major step to form their own state, formally submitting their “declarations of separation” – secession – to the California Secretary of State and the Assembly. A crowd of 70 to 100 ...

A top FBI agent has admitted that the electric power grid is vulnerable to acts of sabotage but he denied claims that an attack on an electric substation in Silicon Valley last year was terrorism. John Lightfoot also said that ...

The movement to demilitarize America’s police forces may have just begun in Davis, California. The college town’s police force has 60 days to get rid of a military surplus armored vehicle, on orders of the city council. “I do not ...

Police inaction has led to vigilantism and the beat-down of a suspected shoplifter in Oakland, California. The only way liquor store clerk Ahmed Eraja and his coworkers could stop a blatant thief was to tackle the man themselves. “Where are ...

The mega-drought has deprived some California residents of what most Americans take for granted: running water in their homes. The situation has gotten so bad that the Red Cross and county authorities are distributing bottles of drinking water to 960 ...

Updated Sept. 4 Police and others will have the ability to shut off cell phones anytime they want under a bill signed into law by California Gov. Jerry Brown, privacy experts say. The new law, Senate Bill (SB) 962, will require manufacturers ...