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The Jesuit priest who presided over an inaugural Mass for President Joe Biden is under investigation for unspecified allegations and is on leave from his position as president of Santa Clara University in Northern California
After being shuttered for over a year, Legoland has become the latest Southern California theme park to announce a reopening date.
As America reels from its latest spate of deadly hate crimes and racism, the California State Board of Education on Thursday approved the nation's first statewide ethnic studies curriculum for high schools, saying the teaching of discrimination and oppression has never been more important.
Two Northern California police officers are on paid leave after a news outlet reported that they are accused of sending degrading and violent text messages about women, people with mental illness and the homeless.
California will set a new window for gun owners to register their legal assault weapons under a settlement announced Thursday over what critics charged was the state's botched registration system in 2018.
The law would mandate up to two weeks of paid time off for things like having coronavirus symptoms, scheduling a COVID-19 vaccine or caring for a child who is doing school at home.
Elected officials from California's Asian and Pacific Islander communities urged Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday to appoint an attorney general of Asian descent, saying it's critical to have a top law enforcement official who understands and will combat anti-Asian violence.
California's attorney general is challenging some of the state's largest suburban development projects as local officials weigh the risk of increasingly devastating wildfires against the state's dire need for more housing.
After being shuttered for the past year because of the coronavirus pandemic, Disneyland has announced that it will reopen to visitors at the end of April.
Two coronavirus strains first detected in California are now officially "variants of concern," according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Former Republican congressman Doug Ose announced Tuesday he's entering the recall election aimed at ousting California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a day after the Democratic governor began raising money to defend his seat in a likely election this year.
A 64-year-old death row inmate died Tuesday at a hospital and authorities say they do not suspect foul play.
The latest of many searches in the nearly 25-year mystery of the disappearance of California college student Kristin Smart ended Tuesday with no comment from authorities on whether it yielded any results.
