A federal judge has ruled that Tesla must defend itself at a trial over allegations it knew foreign workers at one of its facilities were threatened with deportation if they reported an injury and worked long shifts that violated forced labor laws.

Hurricane Rosa weakened into a tropical storm Sunday as it headed toward northwest Mexico and parts of the Southwest, prompting storm warnings for the Baja California coast and flash-flood watches for parts of four American states.

Hurricane Rosa intensified to a Category 4 storm Friday morning with maximum sustained winds topping nearly 145 mph. Rosa is expected to make landfall on the western coast of Mexico late Monday or early Tuesday.

Residents of a 14-story downtown high-rise evacuated due to flooding Sunday morning will not be allowed to return for several days.
Firefighters were called to the Diamond Terrace Condominiums on the 400 block of Ninth Ave. just before 5 a.m. Sunday.

The California Department of Insurance has issued a cease and desist order to the National Rifle Association, alleging that the NRA marketed an insurance product in California without a license.

An explosive wildfire closed down dozens of miles of a major California freeway only weeks after a nearby blaze left neighborhoods in ruins and killed eight people.

One of four people missing since two boats packed with people collided on Saturday night on the Colorado River in California was recovered Monday morning, officials said. Officials said two recreational boats, one carrying 10 people and the other with six, collided head-on.

In the second quarter of 2018, CargoNet® recorded 328 supply chain risk intelligence events in the United States and Canada. Sixty-four percent of incidents involved a stolen vehicle, and 48% involved stolen cargo among several other kinds of events, such as identity theft, missing drivers, and police intelligence.

As massive wildfires wreak havoc again in California, Nationwide is trying to limit the damage — both to homeowners and to its bottom line.The Columbus-based insurer does business in California and so far has received more than 300 claims from the latest round of wildfires.

When all the options are bad, choosing the least-bad option won’t make anybody happy. That’s what’s likely to happen with a stack of proposed legislation to deal with liability for the catastrophic wildfires that have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres across California.

State Farm has taken hundreds of insurance claims related to the latest round of California wildfires, but a lot more work is still to come.

Nothing was typical about the way the Carr Fire tore into the city of Redding, California on July 27. Photos released by the city late last week show an aerial perspective of the devastation caused when it launched its deadly assault on the community of about 100,000.

A firefighter has been killed battling the largest wildfire in Californian history that has been stoked by prime fire weather conditions as it has destroyed dozens of homes.

A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages.

A six-car crash involving a big rig early Monday morning brought southbound traffic on Highway 99 to a total stop and resulted in one DUI arrest, the California Highway Patrol reported.