Daily Business Report: June 8, 2026
By Andrea Sanchez-Villafaña | Voice of San Diego
As of Saturday, the County Registrar of Voters had 195,000 ballots left to count. The next update will come Monday evening.
We’ve rounded up the races that are mostly set for the runoff. If you missed it, you can catch up here.
OK, grab some cafecito (hopefully you’re drinking it in your Cup of Chisme mug).
Here’s what you need to know to start your week.
by Katy Grimes | California Globe
The average price for a gallon of regular gas in California Friday June 5, 2026 is $5.95 – nearly $6.00 per gallon! The national average is $4.22.
Two days ago, the national average was $4.26 per gallon of regular gas, and in California it was $5.99 per gallon. A gallon of mid-grade gas in California is $6.20, and a gallon of premium gas is $6.37. The highest price for gas in California is in Mono County at $7.03 per gallon of regular gas.
This isn’t “California Derangement Syndrome” as Governor Gavin Newsom would have you believe, as businesses and billionaires are fleeing the state, as well.
California’s Lithium Valley dreams meet reality at the only restaurant in town
Rebecca Plevin and Zoë Meyers • Capital & Main
The Buckshot Deli & Diner is an oasis along the sun-blasted California highway that runs from Calexico to Coachella, the only remaining restaurant in the desert hamlet of Niland.
The boxy diner with a red door and red trim strung with Christmas lights is named for the hunters who shoot ducks and geese near the southeastern shores of the Salton Sea. When Vicky Hernandez bought the restaurant about a dozen years ago, she kept the name and decor — a mounted deer head and geese hang from the ceiling above wood-paneled walls — and added handwritten signs advertising birria, tamales and other Mexican specialties.
Recent years have proven challenging for the Buckshot. First came the pandemic, then a fire that destroyed dozens of homes and drove people out of town. Next was another blaze that burned the post office, then recent heavy flooding that damaged yet more homes. Hernandez and her husband have at times run the restaurant with just one other employee. Utilities are expensive, taxes are high, she said, and bills piled up.
