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There are big changes coming to the look of public spaces in California – less lawn. After three severe statewide droughts in just 15 years, state leaders have realized that the irrigation of purely ornamental turf grass in public spaces is unwise. That’s why Governor Gavin Newsom just signed into law a bill that will ban the irrigation of ornamental turf with potable water, effective in stages between 2027 and 2031. 

In a significant win for Burbank’s Armenian community, Assemblymember Laura Friedman has successfully secured $100,000 in funding aimed at long-sought renovations and upgrades for the Armenian Cultural Foundation (ACF) Burbank Beshir Mardirossian Youth Center.

Newsom approved AB 645, a bill that allows Glendale, Long Beach and Los Angeles, as well as Oakland, San Jose and San Francisco to install speed cameras in school zones and high-injury streets with speeding problems.

Trina Newman-Townsend’s girls packed into her Ford Flex after delivering gifts, turkeys and hams to a Los Angeles shelter. It was Christmas Eve, and the recently wed 62-year-old pastor — mother of two, foster mother of five and grandmother of 11 — had a pajama gift exchange to attend later that night.

After six years of trying, it's now the law: several California cities can, at long last, "pilot" the proven tool of Automated Speed Enforcement

Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 645, legislation that will allow a speed camera pilot in San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland, as well as Los Angeles and other Southern California cities.

San Francisco’s fastest drivers will be more closely monitored—and ticketed—in the years to come after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that will allow the city to roll out nearly three dozen new speed cameras in dangerous traffic areas.

A bill signed into law Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom will now ban certain businesses from watering its grass in an effort to reduce water usage.

The bill is modeled after the State placed similar rules on commercial, industrial and government agencies from using drinking water for grass deemed “non-functional” in 2022.

The governor signed 75% of the major environmental bills that lawmakers sent to his desk. As for vetoes, Newsom cited enforcement, cost concerns.

California is set to take major swings at boosting renewable energy, reining in corporate emissions, safeguarding wild places and ensuring livability amid worsening climate change after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed most of the environment-related legislation lawmakers sent his way this session.

THE WHAT? California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning 26 chemicals commonly found in cosmetics like hair products, body wash, and nail polish, citing health concerns.

California has passed into law a bill to prohibit the manufacturing and selling of cosmetics that contain certain ingredients.

This law updates the state’s 2020 Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act, which banned 24 chemicals from use in personal care products.