The California Department of Finance is delaying a request for $40.4 million to reduce wait times and process Real IDs at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Three new wind turbines 70 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, where the Mojave Desert gives way to the San Joaquin Valley, are at the heart of a revolution in California's energy industry, which for millions of people, homes and businesses could mean an end to buying power from monopoly utilities such as Southern California Edison.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said his administration is asking corporations to provide developers with low-interest loans to build housing for teachers, nurses and other middle-class Californians. He indicated the companies' total fundraising for the program would match the $500 million in public money he's proposed in the state budget for the development of middle-income housing.
When volunteers comb the region to count San Diego's homeless population next week, they'll use infrared technology on drones and helicopters to help them locate people living in canyons and other areas where they might be harder to find.
Four experts in the tech sector will present a webinar Tuesday that will offer deep insights into what’s driving the dramatic growth and opportunity in gov tech as an industry. The free webinar is sponsored by e.Republic, parent company of Techwire, Government Technology and a host of other industry publications.
For months, California officials have been examining whether non-citizens voted last year. On Thursday, Secretary of State Alex Padilla confirmed for the first time that his office has an active internal investigation into the matter.
The state budget that passed in 2018 authorized an additional $15 million to build out the remaining sensors needed for California to have a complete warning system.
A Foster City startup today received the first approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to offer rides to the public in self-driving cars. It plans to roll out the robot taxi service in San Francisco in 2020.
The state's political ethics agency has announced it is investigating a complaint alleging that Palo Alto's former chief information officer, Jonathan Reichental, violated state gift laws by taking numerous trips — including international ones — financed by groups that work with telecommunications companies doing business with the city. He told Techwire the accusation is unfounded and unfair.
The Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed Monday that its director, Jean Shiomoto, will retire after three decades with the department and a tumultuous final year.
Technology intended to warn Butte County residents about the rampaging Camp Fire failed in several ways, an analysis shows, revealing the fragility of electronic notification systems.
Southern California Edison is short nearly $1 billion in its power budget — and it's hoping to charge a big chunk of that money to customers leaving for another energy provider.
A battery powered by artificial intelligence that was installed recently in the basement of City Hall in a Southern California beach city will help the city save about $82,000 in energy costs over 10 years, according to city officials. The 235-kilowatt-hour-size battery, created by Stem Inc., will go live next year.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla is refusing to turn over public documents that could shed light on problems with the state's Motor Voter program, which launched earlier this year to automatically register people to vote when they visit the Department of Motor Vehicles. Motor Voter has come under fire after thousands of Californians were improperly registered to vote, and it remains unclear whether any non-citizens voted this year.
San Jose officials voted early this morning to approve a $110 million public land sale to Google, a key step to advance the tech giant's expansion plans that would transform the city's downtown, despite vociferous protests that led to the rare closing of the council's chambers.
In the wake of allegations that Chief Information Officer Jonathan Reichental broke a state gifts law by taking numerous trips on the dime of companies associated with telecom firms, some residents are calling for a halt to cell tower projects whose approval they say he may have influenced. The city denies any wrongdoing.
Management errors by San Diego city officials have delayed a crucial upgrade to software for tracking development projects and sharply increased the cost of the upgrade, a new audit says.
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is suing a former Department of Public Health employee, her supervisor, husband and a cybersecurity firm over a $1.2 million contract that he said was riddled with conflicts of interest and rewarded the former city employee and company with taxpayer dollars.
Last week’s inferno has become an all-too-familiar scene in what experts call the “new normal” as California’s climate changes, and, according to some experts, so was the response.
How far can technology go to help automatically detect and even predict wildfires? From coast to coast, computer scientists, researchers and others are hoping to make it go further.
The California State Teachers Retirement System on Thursday committed to a $300 million expansion of its West Sacramento headquarters, voting to build a second 275,000-square-foot office building along the Sacramento River.
Older satellites could monitor weather, but only for larger-scale weather patterns. The GOES-16 and GOES-17 can zero in on specific areas and storms. The GOES-16 has been used to monitor hurricanes on the East Coast.
Both sides in the debate over whether Bay Area businesses should pay more taxes to help solve the region’s housing, traffic and affordability problems predict that cities will increasingly turn to squeezing Big Tech after voters in three cities approved new levies aimed at tech companies.
With two ballot measures in this week's election amounting to a regional referendum on how much tech corporations should contribute to the common good, voters in San Francisco and in Google's hometown of Mountain View decided that some wealth redistribution was in order.
