Three female student athletes sued their Southern California school district and state Department of Education, claiming they suffered sex discrimination under Title IX and civil rights violations when the defendants allowed a transgender athlete to compete on their high school track and volleyball teams.

California electric vehicle drivers will lose carpool lane privileges on September 30 after the Trump administration declined to extend a 25-year program.

Brian Reeves has spent seven years repairing phones and gadgets from a booth inside the Bayshore, watching businesses vanish one by one. "Business has been dropping steadily," he told SFGATE, blaming the loss of anchors like Sears: "There was quite a few businesses in the mall … brought a lot of people, and then they closed down."

Firefighters with tree-climbing experience were being sent in to put out fires in the trees, some of which are 3,000 years old.

The coronavirus has muscled its way back into headlines in recent weeks amid a summer wave of the illness and growing difficulties in getting the vaccine, as well as efforts by the Trump administration that could make getting inoculated harder for some people.

Immigrant rights activists are warning that the Trump administration is transporting immigration detainees to a private prison in the California desert that is operating illegally and could put detainees in danger.

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A program allowing motorists with a Clean Air Vehicle decal to drive solo in carpool lanes is ending after it was not extended by the federal government, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

Officials in Shasta County are imploring the public to abide by seasonal fire restrictions after various human-caused wildfires have cropped up in the area recently, including one caused by a campfire that is now burning over 750 acres near the towns of Dunsmuir and Castella.