Lawmakers Get First Look At Brown's Budget Proposal
State lawmakers have begun dissecting the tax-and-cut budget proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown as a deadline looms for placing any measures before voters this June.
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State lawmakers have begun dissecting the tax-and-cut budget proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown as a deadline looms for placing any measures before voters this June.
Residents of Elk Grove can officially have "Christmas" trees again.
Building a new arena for the Sacramento Kings will bring in marquee players and more fans, and may be more critical than ever in the face of rumors that the NBA franchise may move, Mayor Kevin Johnson said Wednesday.
A California man has been arrested on charges that he made threatening phone calls to the office of U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott last month.
The Legislature's nonpartisan analyst is calling Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal a "good starting point" for rebuilding state government.
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized to relatives of a slain San Diego college student for failing to advise them that he was cutting in half the prison term of the son of a former California Assembly speaker, the victim's father said Wednesday.
As part of deep state spending cuts, Gov. Jerry Brown has ordered state agency department heads to collect and turn in 48,000 government-paid cell phones by June 1, 2011.
Gavin Newsom pledged to bring more of California's entrepreneurial spirit to the Capitol as he was sworn in as California's 49th lieutenant governor.
A central California congressman plans to move one of his district offices to a government-owned building following the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson.
The Tea Party Express says blaming the constitutionalist movement and Sarah Palin for the Arizona shooting that killed six people and wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is "outrageous."
Federal prosecutors on Monday dropped all remaining charges against a dozen men once accused of plotting to violently overthrow the communist government of Laos, a move that suddenly ends a 3 1/2-year-old international case that reverberated with the last echoes of the Vietnam War.
Gov. Jerry Brown's office says his controversial pick for the state Board of Education, former state superintendent Bill Honig, has withdrawn his name for the job.
Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a budget Monday that would slash funding to most areas of state government and maintain a series of tax increases for five years to close California's huge budget deficit.
California members of the House of Representatives say the shooting of their colleague in Tucson won't deter them from holding public events.
Already home to the nation's oldest Chinatown and the largest Asian population in the continental United States, San Francisco is poised to welcome its first Asian-American mayor.
