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23 hours ago · The Monterey County Department of Health continues testing near the site of the Moss Landing Battery Plant Fire.The county released preliminary findings Jan. 31, reporting that eight sites were tested near the battery plant searching for cobalt, manganese, copper and nickel.

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22 hours ago · SAN JOSE — Santana Row in west San Jose has landed three new office tenants and a cafe in a burst of leasing that provides a hopeful counterpoint to the grim challenges that face the Bay Area office market. Calix, a tech company that offers cloud services; Pivot Interiors, a workspace design firm ...

2 days ago · A recent executive order issued by the Trump administration has raised a cloud of uncertainty about the growth of electric vehicle adoption. So if you are considering buying an EV, should you wait until things sort themselves out, or should you take the plunge ASAP?. Ivan Drury, director of insights at Edmunds.com, says it depends on what each consumer is …

3 days ago · California bosses are battling surging labor costs by giving their workers modestly shorter workweeks. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed state figures on pay patterns dating to 2011 and found the typical California private-sector employee was paid for 33.8 hours weekly in the past year, the shortest workweek in these 14 years.. The drop was modest, off 2% from pre-pandemic 2019, but broad-based.

Dec 3, 2024 · The latest news and headlines in Silicon Valley. House has ‘numerous’ photos from women who say they were paid a total of more than $10,000 by Gaetz for sex, lawyer says

Jan 12, 2025 · What once was a bucolic agricultural landscape of sweeping fruit trees, and later transformed into a mecca for the semiconductor industry, has taken on a new pedigree as Santa Clara has emerged as one of the nation’s biggest hubs for data centers. The 19.3-square-mile enclave of Silicon Valley is ...

Jan 10, 2025 · California businesses are suing to halt a new state law that bars them from requiring employees to attend anti-union meetings at work. The state’s Chamber of Commerce and California Restaurant Association filed the suit in federal court on New Year’s Eve, a day before the new law was to go into ...

Nov 21, 2024 · By Maxwell Adler and Eliyahu Kamisher | Bloomberg. The rally in technology stocks has created so much wealth in California that it has helped the state fill its coffers.. California’s budget for the coming fiscal year is “roughly balanced,” the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office said on Wednesday, citing a surge in corporate and personal-income tax revenue driven by Silicon Valley ...