Local groups aim to financially support vendors who are at risk of being detained during street-level enforcement operations.

More than 30 million Californians across the state could see their electric bills go up to pay for the devastating Eaton fire as officials scramble to shore up a state wildfire fund that could be wiped out by damage claims. One early estimate places fire losses from the Eaton fire at $24 billion to $45 billion.

The nation’s most abundant harvest is ripening in California’s Central Valley fields, but the people at the heart of these agricultural communities are living in fear. Rumors of immigration raids — most unconfirmed — swirled from Colusa to Kern counties this week.