Cigarette Tax Proponents Push For $2-Per-Pack Increase
Proponents of an effort to raise California's cigarette tax have launched a new effort to raise the cigarette tax by $2 a pack, this time with support from wealthy donor Tom Steyer.
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Proponents of an effort to raise California's cigarette tax have launched a new effort to raise the cigarette tax by $2 a pack, this time with support from wealthy donor Tom Steyer.
A Sacramento DMV office is setting strict limits on employee bathroom breaks and even docking workers' pay if the they take too long.
Customers are rushing to scoop up discounted firearms from San Francisco's last gun store before it closes its doors at the end of the month in protest of a proposal to videotape gun sales in the city.
Private shuttle buses caused fewer conflicts with Muni buses and took cars off the street during a pilot regulation program set to end early next year, according to a report released by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency this week.
While his challenger has been raking in endorsements and cash, South Bay Congressman Mike Honda has been racking up legal bills. It's a drain on a campaign that's struggled to raise money.
The mayors of San Francisco and Oakland met with workers Tuesday to express their support for a statewide proposition that would increase the minimum wage by $1 each year beginning in 2017 and continue for the next five years.
It will soon be legal for the terminally ill to end their own lives in the nation's most populous state, and right-to-die advocates expect other states to follow California's example.
Gov. Jerry Brown will be in Richmond Tuesday morning to sign legislation strengthening women's rights to equal pay for equal work.
San Francisco sued Nevada in 2013, over accounts of patients who were discharged from Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, given bus tickets to cities in California and directed to seek further care there.
San Francisco's transit planners are calling a pilot program involving those controversial tech buses a success.
California will become the fifth state in the nation to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives using doctor-prescribed drugs after Gov. Jerry Brown announced Monday he signed one of the most emotionally charged bills of the year.
The comprehensive sex education law will combine information about HIV prevention which is already mandatory with sexual health education.
The only gun store in San Francisco is shuttering for good, saying it can no longer operate in the city's political climate of increased gun control regulations and vocal opposition to firearms.
Gov. Brown signed legislation changing California's definition of racial profiling and requiring that local law enforcement agencies collect demographic data on the people they stop.
The Vatican on Saturday fired a monsignor who came out as gay on the eve of a big meeting of the world's bishops to discuss church outreach to gays, divorcees and more traditional Catholic families.
