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California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Saturday he will buck Democratic legislative leaders by vetoing legislation aimed at stopping the Trump administration from weakening oversight of longstanding federal environmental laws in California.
In their first year with a new governor, California lawmakers passed legislation aimed at guarding against financial harm from wildfires, deterring fatal police shootings and expanding health care to young immigrants living in the country illegally.
The Senate is closing out its session tonight outside their chambers after a protester reportedly dumped what authorities believe to be blood onto the senate floor via a feminine hygiene device.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced today that California will restrict state-funded and state-sponsored travel to Iowa due to a new provision law Iowa enacted this May.
A staunchly conservative political party in California could have to change its name because some state lawmakers say it confuses voters into believing they are registering to vote as an independent.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced that he has commuted the sentences of 21 prison inmates, most convicted of murder or attempted murder and seven of whom had been serving life terms with no chance of parole.
A bill on its way to Gov. Gavin Newsom would let California cities create their own public banks.
The California Senate advanced legislation Friday to cap interest rates for consumer loans, a measure that supporters say is designed to blunt predatory lending practices.
California could blunt some of the Trump administration's efforts to weaken longstanding federal environmental laws under a bill before the state Legislature.
The FBI is investigating a payroll company that abruptly shut down, leaving more than 250,000 employees across the country without paychecks.
The man then-candidate Donald Trump called "my African American" at a 2016 rally is leaving the Republican Party and no longer supports the President.
Pacific Gas & Electric and a group of insurers say they have reached an $11 billion settlement to cover most of the claims from the 2017 and 2018 wildfires in California.
California lawmakers on Thursday temporarily banned state and local law enforcement from using facial-recognition software in body cameras, as the most populous US state takes action against the technology.
California lawmakers are on the verge of approving legislation to trim prison sentences for repeat nonviolent felonies.
Late last month, the 18-year-old student-athlete was hospitalized after using e-cigarettes for more than a year and a half.
