California

The state of California has agreed not to impose greater coronavirus restrictions on church gatherings than it does on retail establishments in a pair of settlements that provide more than $2 million in fees to lawyers who challenged the rules as a violation of religious freedom.

A cafe owner in California is challenging mask-wearing customers by charging them an extra $5 to pay for the “damage they have collectively caused.”

A California x-ray technologist died recently after receiving his second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, according to published reports.

Republican California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner contradicted a previous claim that biological boys should not be permitted to compete in girls’ sports. Jenner said on Fox News Wednesday that boys who identified as girls at “a very young age” ought to be able to do so.

Discriminatory restrictions on worship and religious gatherings may no longer be applied.

Authorities in Southern California are asking the public for assistance in locating the person who fatally shot a child in a suspected road rage incident. One America’s Chloe Hauxwell has more.

Health authorities in Santa Clara County, California, said that businesses are now required to determine the vaccination status of employees.

California will have to pay over $1 million in legal fees and attorney costs as part of a settlement reached with Harvest Rock Church over litigation surrounding the state’s lockdown rules.

The median price of an existing, single-family detached home in the Los Angeles area rose to $725,000 in April, an increase of $45,000 from a month ago, mirroring a spike across California that brought the state’s median price above the $800,000 benchmark for the first time, a real estate group said May 17.

More than 40 district attorneys across California have come together to oppose the potential early release of up to 76,000 inmates from state prisons.