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A union representing state correctional officers reached a tentative contract agreement Tuesday with Gov. Jerry Brown's administration -- five years after former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger imposed a contract stripping the union of much of its power in prison operations.
Assembly Speaker John Perez has called for a vote on Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal tomorrow afternoon.
State Controller John Chiang says the unfunded cost of providing future health and dental benefits to retired state employees has grown by $8.1 billion in the past year, to nearly $60 billion.
California's new governor faces daunting obstacles as he tries to erase a $26.6 billion budget gap, but one of the hardest to ignore is a pair of AM-radio shouters whose conservative-minded audience has a track record of making life uncomfortable, even miserable, for politicians who lose the pair's favor.
Efforts by Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic lawmakers to court a handful of Republican lawmakers are expected to intensify this week as they seek to compromise on a plan to send a tax vote to the ballot.
The nation's largest public pension fund could make a small accounting change that would carry a large price tag for taxpayers when board members meet this week.
That $1,000 flat-screen TV you bought last year came with an extra $10 in sales tax. The five-year-old car with an original price tag of $18,000 cost $54 more to license than it did three years ago. And the $100,000 you and your spouse earned meant an extra $320 in state income taxes.
Key lawmakers are staying close to the Capitol this weekend as Gov. Jerry Brown tries to work out a compromise on the state budget.
The investors who won the contract to buy 24 state office buildings have sued the state.
Now that California lawmakers have missed Gov. Jerry Brown's self-imposed budget deadline, it's unclear when they have to act to meet his demand for a special election in June to consider extending recent tax hikes.
Gov. Jerry Brown is asking lawmakers to delay planned votes on the budget despite his self-imposed deadline for calling a special election to extend temporary tax increases.
Republican lawmakers in the state Assembly refused to budge Tuesday on Gov. Jerry Brown's call for a special election to maintain recent tax hikes, prolonging uncertainty over how California will close its $26.6 billion deficit.
When is someone a pimp? The California Supreme Court grappled with that question Tuesday in the case of a man who was convicted of pandering in Los Angeles after he tried to recruit an undercover police officer to work as a prostitute for him.
Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday he does not have enough Republican votes to pass his plan to address California's $26.6 billion budget deficit, just days before the deadline he set for the state Legislature to call a special election and place a tax measure before voters in June.
A partisan split over how to change California's massively underfunded pension systems is playing an increasingly prominent role in the debate over Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to fix the state's woeful budget.
