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May 7, 2026
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San Diego Cuts Arts and Library Funding as California Cities Confront a Statewide Budget Crisis
San Diego is moving forward with deep cuts to arts grants, library hours, and recreation centers as it works to close a $146 million budget
California Is About to Have 300 Data Centers. Nobody Knows Where the Water Will Come From.
About 115 miles east of San Diego, in the flat sun-bleached expanse of California’s Imperial Valley, a plot of dirt on West Aten Road gives
California Gas Hits $6.01 — No State Has Ever Crossed This Threshold Before
The Iran war reached California’s gas stations Thursday in the most direct terms possible: $6.01 per gallon, a
California High-Speed Rail Cost Reaches $231 Billion — A Number That Has Shaken Sacramento
The California High-Speed Rail Authority’s 2026 draft business plan has produced a figure that no amount of optimism
Big Tech AI Earnings Confirm Silicon Valley as the Center of the Largest Capex Boom in History
In a single earnings night that reverberated far beyond Wall Street, four of the world’s largest technology companies
Newsom’s State Parks Forward Becomes the Largest California State Park Expansion in Decades
California marked Earth Day 2026 with the most consequential expansion of its state park system in a generation.
Business
Route 66 at 100: America’s Mother Road Ends — and Begins — in California
Route 66 turns 100 in 2026, and no state carries the weight of that milestone quite like California. The highway that once stitched rural America
Entrepreneur
Sports
Real Madrid Under Pressure as Draws, Injuries, and Form Questions Mount
Real Madrid’s season has reached a tense middle phase where results look stable on paper but feel unsettled on the pitch. League draws have stacked
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