• California exodus of home insurance companies continues

    Two more insurers are pulling out of California's troubled homeowners insurance market, straining a marketplace that already has seen the pullback of several other companies that have cited increase costs related to wildfire risks. Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co. submitted filings to the California Department of Insurance stating they will not renew 12,556 homeowners policies with a premium value of $11.3 million starting July 1. Also not being renewed are...

  • Windsor police charge parents, caregiver with manslaughter

    Two Windsor parents charged with manslaughter in a case of apparent neglect allegedly let their own adult daughter starve to death, sources have told the Windsor Star. Windsor police said Friday that the parents and a personal support worker of a 29-year-old Windsor woman have been charged with manslaughter and failing to provide the necessaries […]

  • Power to the people – enhanced EV charging is coming to town

    Cars available from John Clark Volvo Edinburgh, on Lonehead Drive, now have access to a network of thousands of different charging points across the UK and beyond, following a partnership between Volvo Cars and Digital Charging Solutions, one of Europe’s largest electromobility providers. Edinburgh’s Volvo drivers will find a host of new and convenient features designed to make accessing and paying for public charging simpler – all accessible through the Volvo Cars app. The new service makes...

  • Power to the people – enhanced EV charging is coming to town

    Cars available from Stoneacre Sheffield, on Penistone Road, now have access to a network of thousands of different charging points across the UK and beyond, following a partnership between Volvo Cars and Digital Charging Solutions, one of Europe’s largest electromobility providers. Sheffield’s Volvo drivers will find a host of new and convenient features designed to make accessing and paying for public charging simpler – all accessible through the Volvo Cars app. The new service makes struggling...

  • Charge 5 devices at once with this $60 portable power pack

    The 5-in-1 Multi-Device Power Pack can charge one device wirelessly and four using wired connections, including the built-in USB-C and Lightning cables.

  • Cash for your backyard? Companies, homeowners try to capitalize on a California law.

    Housing shortage-plagued California recently started allowing property owners to split their lots and have developers build new homes there.

  • DJI launches its own power stations to charge your drones when far from home

    DJI's Power 500 and Power 1000 can both fast charge drones in about 30 minutes so long as you have the correct model.

  • Man charged with vehicular manslaughter in 2022 Oakland hit-and-run

    If convicted, Jose Perez faces six years in state prison.

  • Revealed: how companies made $100m clearing California homeless camps

    Public spending on private sweep contractors is soaring across the state – and unhoused people allege poor treatmentThis story was produced in partnership with Type Investigations with support from the Wayne Barrett ProjectOn an October morning, a small army arrived to evict Rudy Ortega from his home in the Crash Zone, an encampment located near the end of the airport runway in San Jose, California, Silicon Valley’s largest city. As jets roared overhead, garbage trucks and police squad cars...

  • Japanese power company Jera to develop 20GW renewables by 2035

    Japanese power company Jera has created a subsidiary that will develop 20GW of renewable capacity by 2035.

  • Arizona charges Meadows, Giuliani, 16 more in 2020 election fraud case

    An Arizona grand jury has indicted Mark Meadows, who served as former President Trump's chief of staff, and former Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, along with 16 others in an election interference case. The indictment released Wednesday names 11 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Trump had beaten Joe Biden in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election. The names of seven other defendants were not immediately released because they had not yet been served with...

  • Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe

    The indictments cap a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) into how the 2020 pro-Trump elector strategy played out in Arizona, which Biden won by 10,457 votes.