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California elementary school truancy rates are up slightly despite efforts by nearly all the state's school districts to implement improved practices to reduce absenteeism, according to new research.
Proponents of a California pension initiative say state Attorney General Kamala Harris is again favoring labor unions by using the same words she used to describe their previous failed bid to limit taxpayer spending on public pensions.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris said Friday that she plans to review two undercover videos released by anti-abortion activists aimed at discrediting Planned Parenthood's procedures for providing fetal tissue to researchers, to see if any laws were broken.
The state attorney general's office says hate crimes and homicides decreased across California in 2014, along with most other crimes.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris was in Santa Barbara Thursday to tour cleanup efforts at the Refugio State Beach and the surrounding area affected by last month's oil spill.
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.
Speaking to delegates at a state Democratic convention Sunday, the 10-term congresswoman said she said something offensive "and for that I sincerely apologize."
U.S. Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez's campaign was off to a rough start after a videotape surfaced showing her making a whooping cry in reference to Native Americans during an apparent joke.
Officials have confirmed an aide to California Attorney General Kamala Harris was among three people arrested for operating a fictitious police department.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris made waves this week after telling the San Francisco Chronicle that "an undocumented immigrant is not a criminal."
Democrat Kamala Harris has raised $2.5 million since January for her U.S. Senate campaign in California.
Kamala Harris said this was the first such criminal prosecution of a cyber-exploitation website operator in the country
California Attorney General Kamala Harris said Wednesday she will ask a state court for permission to reject a proposed ballot initiative stipulating that anyone who engages in gay sex be killed by "bullets to the head or by any other convenient method."
California has no blanket policy restricting the use of personal email accounts to conduct government business, and it's among about two dozen states that have no clear rules or precedent-setting cases addressing whether those communications are public records.
Attorney General Kamala Harris faces a Friday deadline to decide whether to allow the sale of six nonprofit Catholic hospitals to a for-profit corporation.
California's U.S. Senate race next year is wide open.
U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris has picked up the support of the Los Angeles police union.
It's been more than three weeks since she announced her U.S. Senate candidacy and Kamala Harris hasn't spoken a word at a public campaign event.
The race to replace Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate could come down to a former Los Angeles Mayor and California's first female Attorney General.
Attorney General Kamala Harris said Tuesday that she is entering what is expected to be a crowded field in the 2016 race to replace Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate.
Harris has been in office since 2011 and is the first woman, the first African American and the first South Asian to hold the office in the state's history.
California's attorney general is stepping into the national debate over the recent slayings of unarmed civilians by police, calling for a review by her agency and promising to lead a public dialogue.
Attorney General Kamala Harris on Monday urged the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court decision invalidating the state's death penalty.
Democratic Attorney General Kamala Harris snapped up a second term as California's top attorney Tuesday after a lopsided race against a little-known Republican challenger.
The nation's second-largest chain of rent-to-own furniture and appliance stores has agreed to pay $28.4 million to settle a case in which it allegedly violated California's consumer protection and privacy laws.
