Harris Sworn In As First Female Calif. AG
Democrat Kamala Harris has been sworn in as attorney general, becoming the first woman and first minority to hold California's top law enforcement office.
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Democrat Kamala Harris has been sworn in as attorney general, becoming the first woman and first minority to hold California's top law enforcement office.
Democrat Jerry Brown was sworn in Monday as California's 39th governor, returning to the office he left 28 years ago but inheriting a much different and more troubled state than the one he led then.
Jerry Brown, the enigmatic former governor who always seemed to be eyeing his next political post, returns to the state capital this week to lead a much different California than the one he oversaw 28 years ago.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed two members of his administration to a board that will oversee California's implementation of the new federal health care law.
The California Attorney General's office has decided not to prosecute Deborah Madden, a former San Francisco Police drug lab employee accused of stealing cocaine from the lab.
Billy the Kid, the Old West outlaw who killed at least three lawmen and tried to cut a deal from jail with territorial authorities, won't be pardoned, Gov. Bill Richardson said Friday, nearly 130 years after the gunslinger's death.
Gov.-elect Jerry Brown is keeping quiet about his plans to tackle a $28 billion budget deficit, despite reports that he plans to couple deep spending cuts with a special election next year to extend temporary tax increases.
Top executives at the University of California are threatening to sue if employees earning more than $245,000 annually do not receive a major pension hike.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is stepping down next month without accomplishing his main goal of fixing California's budget problems.
California Lt. Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom will be starting off his new job with a new baby.
Arnold Schwarzenegger landed in the governor's office after announcing his upstart bid on late night TV and railing against government spending during raucous campaign rallies -- at one playing a spirited round of air guitar to the rock anthem "We're Not Gonna Take It."
A new study shines the spotlight on millions of dollars in wasteful government spending that includes some targets here in California.
Gov.-elect Jerry Brown will be sworn in next month at the same place Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took the oath of office four years ago.
All seven members of the California Supreme Court on Tuesday recused themselves from hearing an appeal by the Schwarzenegger administration regarding the sale of state office buildings.
A state audit on Tuesday found that some California agencies inflated the number of jobs created by the federal stimulus program.
