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Siskiyou County’s sheriff is investigating the media’s conduct in the McKinney Fire zone. Also, a new state Senate committee on the monkeypox virus will hold its first meeting today, and a report from the Legislative Analyst's Office says the California Employment Development Department is too focused on fraud.

The state’s Employement Development Department and unemployment insurance program is too focused on rooting out fraud and minimizing business costs than providing people with timely benefits, according to the LAO report.

Recent incidents of overt hate speech in Chico bring up questions about its legality. Also, proposed legislation in the state senate would restrict law enforcement from using a sexual assault survivor’s DNA for any purpose other than identifying the perpetrator, and a pilot program would give EDD benefits to undocumented Californians who’ve lost their jobs.

California is asking some 1.4 million unemployment recipients to prove their eligibility months after receiving aid as part of a fraud recovery campaign.

California’s unemployment agency, widely seen as one of the state’s biggest failures of the pandemic, says it is making progress on reforms. But some fixes could take years to fully implement.

If not for a persistent mail carrier, Lance Hastings might not have discovered all of the fake unemployment claims. Last September, the head of the…

She didn’t know it at the time, but last September was when everything started to unravel for Julie Hansen. It was late in the month when the furloughed…

A new federal lawsuit takes aim at Bank of America for failing to secure the unemployment debit cards of thousands of Californians, part of a chaotic…

A 1-year-old in Fresno raking in $167 a week. An ex-state employee stealing $200,000 from California’s unemployment system, some by impersonating Sen.…

As coronavirus resurges 10 months into a devastating pandemic, many jobless Californians have exhausted their options and are hanging on to what little…