California Takes First Step To Regulate Medical Marijuana
California took the first step Thursday to regulate its nearly 20-year-old medical marijuana industry, one that lawmakers said currently resembles something out of the "wild, wild West."
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California took the first step Thursday to regulate its nearly 20-year-old medical marijuana industry, one that lawmakers said currently resembles something out of the "wild, wild West."
The Obama administration is scrambling to assess the impact of a massive data breach that occurred when federal agencies were hacked.
California lawmakers are expected to vote on legislation that would make it legal for terminally ill patients to end their lives with doctor-prescribed drugs.
California college students who are disciplined for sexual assault face tougher penalties under legislation approved by the state Assembly.
A group of farmers and others in Central California's Kern County is suing state officials and oil executives over contaminated underground water aquifers.
California lawmakers on Wednesday narrowly approved legislation to reduce racial profiling with unprecedented data collection on police stops.
The California Senate approved legislation that would make the state the first in the nation to extend health coverage to children who are in the country illegally.
The state Assembly is advancing legislation to expand California's sex education curriculum, requiring schools to teach more about sexually transmitted infections and discuss same-sex relationships when teaching HIV prevention.
SB695 would require school districts to make sexual violence prevention part of the curriculum at school districts where health education is a high school graduation requirement.
The legislation approved unanimously on Monday would expand financial incentives for seismic retrofits.
The Assembly on Monday unanimously approved AB288 to expand so-called dual enrollment in high school and college.
A proposal that would shift the responsibility of fixing broken sidewalks back to property owners will be considered Monday by a Los Angeles city panel.
An aide to California Attorney General Kamala Harris charged with impersonating a police officer last month isn't the only employee from the top prosecutor's office to be investigated for posing as a member of law enforcement.
California regulators voted Friday to limit how much water can be used to irrigate lawns on new and renovated buildings.
California may become the first state to explicitly allow motorcycles to weave between stalled cars in traffic.
