Brown Signs Bill Protecting Reporters' Phone Logs
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill requiring state officials to give journalists five days' notice before they issue subpoenas for telephone records.
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Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill requiring state officials to give journalists five days' notice before they issue subpoenas for telephone records.
Gov. Jerry Brown is expected to sign a bill Thursday adding California to the growing list of states allowing immigrants in the country illegally to obtain driver licenses.
Online enrollment is available for California's new health insurance exchange after technical glitches on the system's opening day forced overnight upgrades.
While congressional leaders have been summoned to the White House on the second day of a partial government shutdown, a group of Stockton students on a trip to see the nation's monuments has been left locked outside.
The federal government shutdown furloughed as many as 800,000 of the nation's 2.1 million federal workers as it hit early Tuesday after a bitterly divided Congress failed to approve a temporary spending bill to keep the government running.
A new poll finds a majority of California voters want the $68-billion bullet train project stopped and consider it a waste of money.
"It's devastating because you may have a community of 3,000 people and 300 of them are working in or related to the saw mill," said David Bischel with the California Forestry Association.
Gov. Jerry Brown has put his signature on a bill that will hike California's minimum wage to $10 an hour within three years.
A voting method in the California State Assembly that some legislators call "common practice" is coming under fire from government watchdogs who say lawmakers are violating a fundamental rule.
Minors in California will have a chance to remove embarrassing photographs and potentially damaging postings on social media websites under a bill that has been signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown.
A Sacramento County Democratic Party leader has resigned after being thrown into the national spotlight for tweeting a death wish for a Republican staffer's children.
Two of the major players in the passage of California's now-defunct same-sex marriage ban are backing a campaign to overturn a new law allowing transgender students to choose which school restrooms they use and whether to play boys' or girls' sports.
California's unemployment rate rose to 8.9 percent in August, the second consecutive monthly increase, the state Employment Development Department said Friday.
Gov. Jerry Brown is set to consider more than a dozen bills that supporters and opponents alike agree would impose the nation's toughest restrictions on gun ownership if he signs the entire legislative package into law.
Californians who earn minimum wage will see some extra money in their pockets, as the hourly rate will jump a dollar by January, and an additional dollar in two years.
