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Satellite launch service provider Virgin Orbit files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after failing to secure long-term funding. The California-based company announces that it will layoff 85% of its workforce.
2023-04-4

California health officials say that stadiums, Disneyland, and other theme parks can reopen beginning on April 1 with limited capacity.
2021-03-5

Nebraska reports their first case of California's B.1.429 variant in a man in his 60s in Lancaster County.
2021-02-27

California Governor Gavin Newsom confirms that the state has signed a deal with Massachusetts-based PerkinElmer to provide faster testing results.
2020-08-26

Pacific Gas and Electric Company CEO Bill Johnson pleads guilty on behalf of his company to 84 counts of felony involuntary manslaughter in the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest wildfire in California's history, as well as one felony count of unlawfully starting a fire. PG&E will pay a maximum fine of US$3.5 million, as well as an additional US$500,000 for the cost of investigations.
2020-06-16

Winter Storm Jacob continues to move eastwards across the northern United States, bringing up to 26 in of snowfall from Montana to Idaho and Utah and down into the Sierra Nevada of California.
2020-01-16

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California's CARB are widening the Volkswagen investigation into several more expensive VW, Porsche, and Audi automobiles with 3.0-liter diesel engines in model years 2014 through 2016. Volkswagen says it installed no defeat device software on its 3.0 litre V6 diesel cars and is cooperating with the agency to fully investigate the matter.
2015-11-2

The measles outbreak at Disneyland (Anaheim), which originated on December 28, 2014 (patient zero being an unvaccinated California woman who apparently transmitted the virus through airports and the theme park), but was unreported until January 7, spreads from California to six other states, including Nebraska, and Mexico. It now involves at least eighty-five cases.
2015-01-24

A shooter opens fire inside a Native American tribal office in Alturas, California, United States, killing four and wounding two.
2014-02-20

An unruly crowd riots on Hollywood Boulevard outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California after being refused admission to a documentary on the Electric Daisy Carnival.
2011-07-27