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A Chevron station in the 900 block of Alameda Street in downtown Los Angeles has gas prices just under $6 a gallon. The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose Friday for the 11th consecutive day, the largest week-to-week increase since March. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) It’s not your imagination. California, like the rest of the nation, is paying more at the pump. Prices are so high — and consumers are so perplexed — that a Google search of… Source link

A California woman with more than $350,000 in student debt served as her own lawyer in personal bankruptcy and saw 98% of her loans discharged in the latest case in a growing trend. Court filings show that the Education Department (ED) and the Los Angeles-based woman, Mis Loe, agreed on August 30 that Loe would pay $7,200 of her $356,637.82 in outstanding loans (at a fixed monthly rate of $60 for 10 years or until October 1, 2031). Once Loe completes the $7,200 payment by October 2031,… Source link

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has turned to familiar Democratic faces in the final days of a campaign to keep his job.  President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Senator Elizabeth Warren have all lent their voices to give the embattled governor a boost against a Republican-led effort to remove him from office. But if Newsom emerges victorious on Tuesday, he may have some big name tech executives, particularly Netflix (NFLX) co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings to thank. With a… Source link

Container vessels stuck at anchor off California are grabbing the headlines. But there’s another massive shipping traffic jam out there, one that’s holding up even more cargo. This other, less-publicized tale of seaborne gridlock is set in China and it’s not about container ships, it’s about dry bulk carriers. Bulker congestion has now risen to historic highs as China enforces stricter COVID rules for arriving vessels. And what happens in China will be felt in America. Every bulker stuck at… Source link

The Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to infect a substantial number of children, giving many parents and teachers cause for concern. One of those teachers is Juana Rodarte. She teaches seventh grade at La Merced Intermediate School located in Montebello, Calif. The 22-year teaching veteran spoke openly about her fears and hopes about the new school year amid the COVID-19 surge. “I really do hope that every student that can get vaccinated does get vaccinated,” Rodarte told Yahoo… Source link

Battalion Chief Sergio Mora reacts as the Dixie Fire tears through Plumas County, Calif., on Wednesday. (Noah Berger/AP) Nichoel Farris had been living on an apple farm in Greenville, Calif., for four years with her husband, Paul. The farm, located in the High Sierra of Northern California, about 150 miles north of Sacramento, was where they grew sunflowers, raised chicks, rode horses and grew apples. Now all that’s left is a pile of ash and blackened tree trunks. The Dixie Fire, driven by… Source link

(Reuters) – Tesla Inc’s vehicle registrations in California rose more than 85% in the second quarter versus last year, largely due to the success of the company’s Model Y, according to data from Cross-Sell https://info.cross-sell.com/tesla-special-report-0, a research firm that collates title and registration data. The automaker posted record vehicle deliveries for the April-to-June quarter earlier this month, as it dealt with a semiconductor shortage and relied on sales of its cheaper… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW (CBS SF) — Officials with Google on Monday confirmed the protocols the company will be following for initial reopening at its California offices in July ahead of their anticipated full return in September. In May, Google said it expected about 20% of its workforce to continue working remotely after the fall reopening, while some 60% would work a hybrid schedule that includes about three days in the office and two days “wherever they work best.” READ MORE: UPDATE: Former… Source link

Bloomberg Inside the Race to Avert Disaster at China’s Biggest ‘Bad Bank’ (Bloomberg) — It was past 9 p.m. on Financial Street in Beijing by the time the figure inside Huarong Tower there picked up an inkbrush and, with practiced strokes, began to set characters to paper.Another trying workday was ending for Wang Zhanfeng, corporate chairman, Chinese Communist Party functionary—and, less happily, replacement for a man who very recently had been executed.On this April night, Wang was… Source link

A Texas judge hearing a state antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google denied on Thursday a request for the case to be moved to California, where the company is fighting similar lawsuits. Google had asked for the case to be moved for several reasons, including that its headquarters is in California, as are many of the witnesses who would likely be called. read more Judge Sean Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, however, disagreed that that… Source link