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California lawmakers leading an effort to extend the state's signature climate change initiative made a last-minute appeal Saturday to critics on the left who say their plan doesn't do enough to reign in polluters.
"I thought I was going to be the next Trayvon Martin."
State lawmakers took more than 300 days off this session and continued collecting tens of thousands of dollars in living expenses on top of their salaries, an Associated Press review found.
The Cal Fire union says city and county fire agencies pay firefighters far more to do the same job than Cal Fire.
They are calling for an audit of the DMV's handling of the program.
Because of Dan and Kerry Mason's testimony, a legislation aimed at protecting homeowners was approved Wednesday.
Prosecutors say that Spencer Stone's 57-year-old father Brian J. Stone helped with the fraudulent insurance claims. He's charged with 13 counts of fraud.
Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown still must sign off on the legislation the Senate approved to make California the first state after Hawaii with the higher age limit.
A reporter tells KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO the arrest could have a big impact on local politics in both Northern and Southern California.
Spencer Stone, 23, was knifed several times in the torso shortly after leaving a bar, where an hour earlier he was applauded by patrons.
Supporters say the new law offers the strongest equal-pay protection in the nation to challenge gender-based wage gaps.
State lawmakers in Sacramento are set to consider a tax increase on gas and hybrid vehicles.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has identified the stabbing victim in Wednesday's riot as Hugo Pinell, 71.
A measure expected to quality for the November 2016 ballot could threaten Gov. Jerry Brown's $15 billion twin tunnel plan to send water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Members of the California Assembly are denouncing a proposed ballot measure that would make it legal to murder gay and lesbian people.
As California lawmakers begin drilling into Gov. Jerry Brown's revised budget for next year, Democrats and social welfare advocates say they already see many areas that need even more funding.
A bill requiring California schoolchildren to get vaccinated will receive its first public hearing Wednesday after similar efforts to limit exemptions in Washington and Oregon failed to advance.
A 119-year-old diploma that was found in the basement of a Chino home was reunited Thursday with relatives of the deceased recipient.
The mother and husband of Brittany Maynard appeared Wednesday in the state capitol to support a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to end their lives in California.
If the referendum qualifies, the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags will be suspended until voters weigh in, effectively buying plastic bag manufacturers more time.
The settlement was filed Friday in federal court, where judges would need to approve it before any changes take effect.
John Ryan scored 14 points and Alex Young added 13 to lead UC Irvine to a 74-62 victory over Sacramento State on Saturday night.
A man who has buffed shoes inside the Capitol for more than two decades is among those recently laid off by the state Senate.
The plight of an Afghanistan war veteran jailed south of the border may or may not come up Tuesday during a high-level meeting in Sacramento.
A bipartisan effort by lawmakers in Sacramento to delay an upcoming increase in gas prices appears to have stalled Monday.
