Month: September 2012

California, which sent a delegation to Austin, Texas last year to find out how the Lone Star State had beat it in employment growth, surged ahead of Texas to lead the nation in job creation for the last two consecutive months.Texas led California in job creation in 18...

Facebook was cleared by the state of California to issue stock for its purchase of Instagram. State officials declared the transaction was “fair, just and equitable” at the conclusion of a hearing in San Francisco before the Department of Corporations. The...

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. agreed to pay more than $2 million to a teenager burned in the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes, according to secret settlement documents mistakenly posted by a California...

Four Orange County Republican state lawmakers have signed on to co-author last-minute legislation that would restrain litigation under California’s environmental-protection laws.The proposal, Senate Bill 317 by State Sen. Michael Rubio, D-Bakersfield,...