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A new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that houses with rooftop solar panels fetch higher prices than comparable homes without them. The extra home value, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, more than covers the cost of installing ...

California Governor Jerry Brown may have vetoed a statewide ban on so-called assault rifles, but San Francisco officials have enacted a similar version of the bill locally – and the NRA is fighting back. The city has a history of ...

Voters in Sunnyvale, California will decide next week on a strict new gun control measure that has already set off both sides of the debate on gun laws in the United States. The ballot initiative, known as Measure C, would ...

Secession is the talk of Modoc County, California, after the Board of Supervisors voted to join adjacent Siskiyou County in its bid to separate from the state – thereby joining a secessionist movement that is sweeping the country and could ...

A California man claims that police officers tossed him in a jail cell, beat him, and then took away his clothes. If David Scott Byrket’s story is accurate, he was released two days after the ordeal, without any charges being ...

Electronic license plates may sound like something out of an old Jetson’s cartoon, but they soon could be mandatory on a car in your very own garage. California will most likely be the first state to use electronic license plates ...

Some state governments are adding a new technology called radio frequency identification chips (also known as RFIDs) to driver’s licenses that will make it easy – critics say — for state officials to track citizens. The technology is not new; ...

The California wildfire that has burned 134,000 acres also has threatened San Francisco’s power and water supply, demonstrating once again the vulnerability of the nation’s power grid. The wildfire is about 150 miles to the east of San Francisco – ...

New gun control bills in California could make it the most firearms-restrictive state in the US. Lawmakers are now doing a final review of a whole host of Second Amendment-infringing bill. One of the gun control laws would ban a ...

A county sheriff in Northern California has stripped the U.S. Forest Service of some of its law enforcement authority in his jurisdiction. Specifically, El Dorado County Sheriff John D’Agostini sent the Forest Service a letter stating that its agents would ...