Voters in California and Texas affiliated with a Democratic group want to intervene in a lawsuit filed by four Republican state attorneys general.

LOS ANGELES — A Rancho Cucamonga woman was sentenced Monday to more than 3 years in prison in a long-running case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who automatically became American citizens.

Francisco Rivero is on a mission to spread the word about a gentler, environmentally friendly alternative to cremation.

For some parts of Monterey County, new safeguards against flooding are especially urgent. In Pajaro, the community of largely lower-income earners still faces high flooding risk today, as residents await the planned overhaul of an outdated, undersized levee system. (The county continues to search for, and receive, funding sources for Pajaro.)

The Los Angeles Fire Department has less than one firefighter for every 1,000 residents, with a staffing rate of 0.90, a Bay Area News Group analysis found. The rate at the Oakland Fire Department is 1.07, and the San Jose Fire Department’s is only 0.64.

Refunds are now available to more than 100 property owners, with two of them eligible to receive as much as $100,000 each in refunds.

The average price of a dozen large, grade-A eggs was $4.15 in December, up from $3.65 in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Egg prices were also up more than 36% year-over-year in December, according to the Consumer Price Index.

The Monterey County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to enact a proclamation of local emergency related to the Vistra Energy fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant that started Jan. 16,

SANTA CLARA — A big South Bay office building has defaulted on a property loan that tops $70 million, an ominous new reminder that economic woes still haunt the Bay Area real estate market.

President Donald Trump’s decision to exit the World Health Organization means the U.N. agency is losing its biggest funder. For the two-year budget ending in 2025, the U.S. is projected to be WHO’s largest single contributor by far. It is expected to donate $958 million, or nearly 15%, of the agency’s roughly $6.5 billion budget.

Pop across Highway 37 (enjoying the bird-filled Napa-Sonoma Marshes along the way) and in 30 minutes you’re in another avian world. Have you seen shrikes, magpies and cranes recently? They aren’t

Newsom’s optimistic state budget is already outdated, since fires will heavily impact both income and spending.