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A California appeals court has upheld an order requiring Uber and Lyft to treat their California drivers as employees instead of independent contractors, less than two weeks before voters will be asked to exempt the ride-hailing giants from the state’s gig economy law.

A state appeals court intervened Thursday in an ongoing legal battle involving Lyft and Uber, granting an emergency order to prevent a planned shutdown of ride services in California. Lyft announced in a blog post earlier Thursday that the company will suspend its operations Thursday night across California. Operations were expected to halt beginning at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, the company…

A 36-year-old man in Florida is charged with battery and child abuse after he tore down a plastic safety partition and attacked a Lyft driver. According to a sheriff’s press release, the man was charged with child abuse because a 7-year-old boy was riding in the car and the attack put him in danger.

A ride share driver was shot in Little Village early Sunday morning, according to Chicago police. The 50-year-old male victim was driving westbound on 30th street near the 3900 block at around 2:49 a.m. when he saw multiple males yelling, according to police. He then heard multiple gunshots and immediately felt pain. He sustained one gunshot wound to the left…

The rideshare industry is making drastic changes to the way you ride.

Chicago police are warning rideshare users to take extra precautions after a kidnapping and robbery incident in the city’s Fulton River District neighborhood. According to police, the victim left a bar near Grand and Halsted at around 2 a.m. on Jan. 16 when a 2003 Gold 4dr Acura MDX approached. The victim held a conversation with the driver and entered…

City of Chicago officials say they need more time to study how and when people ride e-scooters before the city makes a final decision on whether to keep the scooters permanently. Several companies participated in the first trial in 2019, including brands from Uber and Lyft. NBC 5’s Kye Martin reports.

The actor was in Miami promoting his new movie, “Bad Boys for Life,” over the weekend. He picked up four riders in a 2020 Porsche Taycan, occasionally getting into the attitude of his movie character detective Mike Lowry and encouraging passengers to do their best Bad Boys imitation as his partner in crime.

Four robberies or thefts were committed by people posing as Uber and Lyft drivers recently in River North and Old Town. Near North detectives say that once the victims get in the car, they’re threatened, sometimes with a gun. They then take your wallet or bag and run up your credit cards. Police say the latest incident happened Jan. 3…

Uber and Lyft rides in Chicago will soon be more expensive, as a new tax on ride-share services takes effect Monday.

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Uber and Lyft rides in Chicago just got more expensive, as a new tax on ride-share services took effect Monday. Susan Carlson has details.

More than 3,000 sexual assaults were reported during U.S. Uber rides in 2018, the company said in a long-awaited safety report. That figure includes 229 rapes across the company’s 1.3 billion rides. Uber noted that drivers and riders were both attacked, and that some assaults occurred between riders. In 2017, the company said 2,936 sexual assaults were reported.

New York will be the first state to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle-class students under a state budget approved by lawmakers Sunday.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot made headlines when she said Uber offered black ministers $54 million to oppose a new tax on rideshares, but there’s a new twist, as NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern explains. 

If you woke up to a weird text that seemed totally out of place, you aren’t alone. A mysterious wave of missives swept America’s phones overnight, delivering confusing messages from friends, family and the occasional ex. Friends who hadn’t talked to each other in months were jolted into chatting. Others briefly panicked. A telecom vendor called Syniverse said a server...

The Democrats who rule California took on homegrown tech giants Uber and Lyft over their workforces, convinced some of the world’s biggest automakers to buck the president on fuel emissions and passed a law that could change college sports nationwide.

 Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday announced a proposal to increase taxes on single rides with ride-share companies, as well as rides that begin or end in Chicago’s downtown area.

The California Senate has passed a bill that would give new wage and benefit protections to workers at so-called gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft.