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State and federal health officials are trying to locate everyone who came in contact with a Northern California woman believed to be the first in the U.S. to contract the coronavirus with no known connection to travel abroad or other known causes.
How could the possible spread of coronavirus change our daily lives? Schools, businesses, hospitals and first responders could all be impacted, according to the CDC.
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to consolidate the state's confusing array of child care programs that are run by multiple state agencies to make getting the services easier for low-income parents of young kids.
Newsom said this is a crisis than can't be solved overnight or even over the span of a year.
Stockton will be among the next group of cities getting emergency housing trailers for the homeless.
California should lower the legal bar for providing forced treatment to the mentally ill and building more homeless shelters, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday in his second State of the State address.
A White House aide called California "occupied territory" in a tweet touting President Donald Trump's visit to the state on Tuesday.
A small change in California law is having a big impact on some of California's most vulnerable young people.
Bayard Rustin was a confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a key organizer of the March on Washington in 1963. He also helped plan other nonviolent protests and boycotts to end racial discrimination.
The governor of California wants to pause physical education tests for students over concerns with bullying and discrimination.
A federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement that moves Pacific Gas & Electric closer to getting out of bankruptcy.
California has completed 34 of the forest thinning projects it rushed to finish in the past year as a way to buffer 200 communities at high risk from wildfires, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday banned state-funded travel to California in response to a similar ban California placed on travel to the Sooner State.
Calling California's homeless crisis a public health issue, hospital giant Kaiser Permanente on Friday pledged $25 million to a new state fund aimed at getting people off the streets.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is on a weeklong statewide tour promoting his billion-dollar effort to tackle the homeless crisis in California.
A legal trailblazer and longest-serving sitting member of the California Supreme Court said Wednesday he'll retire this year.
Gov. Gavin Newsom began a week-long statewide tour Monday promoting his $1 billion effort to address one of California's most pressing and politically fraught problems - its growing homeless crisis.
Gov. Gavin Newsom trying to stem the youth vaping epidemic by adding a new tax on e-cigarettes.
Gov. Gavin Newsom will announce his state spending plan on Friday, flush with a multi-billion surplus.
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to hire more state firefighters and make homes safer from devastating wildfires in the budget he will send to state lawmakers on Friday.
California could become the first state with its own prescription drug label under a proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled Thursday.
California's governor said Wednesday that he is seeking $750 million in part to help pay rent for people facing homelessness in the most populous state's latest attempt to fight what he called a national crisis.
During his inaugural address last January, California Gov. Gavin Newsom made only a passing reference to wildfires and never mentioned the state's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric. Both soon became inescapable topics.
The Trump administration awarded billions of dollars in contracts for private companies to operate immigration detention centers in California -- less than two weeks before a new state law takes effect to prohibit them.
California is bracing for a much smaller budget surplus next year because of its ongoing feud with the Trump administration about a tax involving Medicaid, the state's chief budget writer said Monday.
