California Adopts Cap-And-Trade Plan
California has adopted the nation's most comprehensive system designed to provide a financial incentive for polluters to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
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California has adopted the nation's most comprehensive system designed to provide a financial incentive for polluters to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
Long-time San Joaquin Valley politician, Rep. Dennis Cardoza says he is retiring.
The state treasurer on Wednesday called California's tax break program for clean energy companies a "wise and needed one" despite the failure of its most high-profile recipient -- the solar startup Solyndra.
Two California lawmakers want to know why the Obama administration is cracking down on the state's medical marijuana dispensaries so they can craft legislation to address the federal government's concerns.
Occupy supporters are on the move again in Sacramento. They went from Cesar Chavez Park to city hall for the second straight week.
California's largest industry group for doctors is calling for the legalization of marijuana even as it maintains that the drug has few proven health benefits.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's re-election campaign estimated on Friday that she is missing nearly $4.7 million because of unauthorized disbursements by her former campaign treasurer, Kinde Durkee.
A House hearing on a solar panel manufacturer that went broke after receiving a half-billion dollar federal loan erupted in a partisan skirmish before any witnesses had testified Friday. Rep. Henry Waxman called the hearing "a rigged proceeding."
Gov. Jerry Brown knows California is ailing, but he's not sharing many details on how he plans to fix it.
California's political watchdog agency has voted to allow campaign contributions via text messages.
California taxpayers may be on the hook twice – for helping out a solar firm that fired its workers and then abruptly shut its doors.
A California native who grew up picking vegetables with his migrant parents and then soared over the same fields as an astronaut aboard the International Space Station announced plans Tuesday to run for Congress in the state's newly formed 10th District.
California girls who dream about the sun-kissed skin glorified in song by Katy Perry will have to wait until they turn 18 before they can get the effect from tanning beds under a new first-in-the-nation law.
Gov. Jerry Brown has waded into the national debate over child vaccinations for sexually transmitted diseases, signing a bill allowing children as young as 12 to get vaccinated without their parents' consent.
Illegal immigrants can now apply for state-funded scholarships and aid at state universities after Gov. Jerry Brown announced Saturday that he has signed the second half of a legislative package targeting such students.
