In this biopic, a boy from a family of migrant farm workers watches the moon landing in 1969, which ignites his desire to be an astronaut.
Category: California
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Defying Industry, California Lawmakers Vote for Employer-Paid Food Training
The legislation would require state employers — not workers — to pay for mandatory safety instruction. It awaits the governor’s decision.
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Restaurants Agree to Raise Pay to $20 an Hour in California
The deal will avoid a ballot fight over a law passed last year that could have resulted in higher pay and other changes opposed by restaurant companies and franchisees.
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Restaurants and Unions Agree to Raise Pay to $20 an Hour in California
The deal will avoid a ballot fight over a law passed last year that could have resulted in higher pay and other changes opposed by restaurant companies and franchisees.
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Salvation Mountain in California Searches for How to Save Itself
The folk art monument in the desert near the Salton Sea grapples with extreme weather, social-media-fueled tourism and its own tattering beauty.
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Pork Industry Grapples With Whiplash of Shifting Regulations
Retailers in California, and pig farmers and processors thousands of miles away, are bracing for the impact of a state ban on some sources of the meat.
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Pork Industry Grapples With Whiplash of Shifting Regulations
Retailers in California, and pig farmers and processors thousands of miles away, are bracing for the impact of a state ban on some sources of the meat.
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Overlooked No More: Chick Strand, Pioneering Experimental Filmmaker
Often turning her lens on women, she emerged as one of independent cinema’s fiercest proponents on the West Coast.
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As Teens Take to E-Bikes, Parents Ask: Is This Freedom or Danger?
Across the country, parents are expressing a mix of enthusiasm, contrition and uncertainty about the trendy mode of transportation.
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Mike Moritz, Reid Hoffman and Other Silicon Valley Titans Said to Be Behind Mysterious Land Deals
A mysterious company has spent $800 million in an effort to buy thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay Area land. The people behind the deals are said to be a who’s who of the tech industry.
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Sexual Abuse Suits Against Michael Jackson’s Companies Are Revived
An appeals court in California determined that lawsuits by two men who say Jackson molested them as children can proceed.
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Hurricane Hilary: What Travelers Need to Know
Flights and other travel plans may be disrupted by the powerful storm moving up the Baja California Peninsula and toward the Southwestern United States.