California

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Back in 2008, in the midst of the last U.S. recession, Filipino American Liza Tan was gutsy enough to put up her own business in San Francisco. But she quickly realized it...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — It was a packed room full of parents, teachers, and members of the local community celebrating the opening of the Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary School in Mountain View, CA. This undocumented immigrant...

Chatsworth, CA — The family of Joseph Ileto, the Filipino American mail carrier gunned down during a shooting spree carried out by a white supremacist in 1999, joined elected officials as they planted a tree in...

SANTA CLARITA, CA — Baseball season is in full swing. Fil-Am Kai Caranto is one of the top baseball prospects in the country, and he’s headed off to Westlake Harvard High School. Caranto was named to...

SAN FRANCISCO — This is the Art of Peace exhibit — presented by two Filipino Americans who have been affected by gun violence, Pati Poblete of the Robby Poblete Foundation and Rudy Corpuz of United Playaz,...

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Charmaine Lugartos thought the Gilroy Garlic Festival was the perfect idea to spend a Sunday with her visiting family members from the Philippines. She says they were enjoying themselves, until a mass...

The Bern is blazing through Southern California. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders went to Los Angeles over the weekend to hold rallies, and do television appearances. As he pushes his campaign through America’s second-largest city, he reached...

Devastating, senseless tragedy out of Gilroy — a city about an hour away from our ABS-CBN studio here in Northern California. As thousands of people flocked to the world-famous Gilroy Garlic Festival, a gunman opened fire...

ELIZABETH, NJ — Family planning clinics that receive federal funding will no longer be permitted by the Trump administration to provide abortion referrals. If they do not comply, they will lose their funding. The Department of...

SACRAMENTO, CA — “We are the most un-Trump state within America when it comes to healthcare and I’m proud of that.” President Donald Trump has called his move “crazy,” but California Governor Gavin Newsom proudly announced that he signed a...