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With nearly 60 percent of California in an exceptional state of drought since 2011, and farmers in the state’s Central Valley forced to pump groundwater from deep below to irrigate their crops, researchers are suggesting that removing the groundwater could ...

California residents would have to register with the state, get fingerprinted, undergo a background check, and pay a state fee to buy a box of bullets if a bill in the state legislature becomes law. Senate bill (SB) 53, which ...

A power grid attack occurred in Arizona last week, yet it barely caused a flutter in the 24/7 news cycle. If the makeshift bomb had functioned as designed, more than 30,000 residents would have been in the dark, sent back ...

Most residents of California’s far north are against the idea of seceding from the nation’s most populous state, although one county is for it. Voters in two of three Northern California counties have rejected ballot measures that urged county governments ...

Judges would have the power to restrict individuals’ Second Amendment rights and order gun confiscations under a proposed California law aimed at the mentally ill. Assembly Bill (AB) 1014 would also give anybody the right to ask a judge to ...

Property owners, farmers and communities in California could lose water rights that they have held for generations because of the ongoing mega-drought in the Golden State. Farmers could be fined for irrigating crops, homeowners fined for watering lawns and cities ...

A recent action by the state of California demonstrates how unreliable the electric grid has become – but also foreshadows the future of electricity in America. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is requiring utilities to start storing large amounts ...

A California city government is pioneering what could be a dangerous new expansion of the use of eminent domain to seize private property. The Claremont City Council will vote on a resolution to seize the assets of a private utility ...

Even BB guns are now in the crosshairs of gun control activists in state legislatures. A bill in California’s state Senate would require BB guns to be painted a bright color. Meanwhile, a bill in Maine’s state legislature would make ...

The record-setting winter water drought in California is cause for concern for not just locals, but for many Americans. Approximately two-thirds of California has been deemed in the midst of either a “severe” or “exceptional” drought. Nine percent of the ...