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Francis framed climate change as an urgent moral issue to address in his eagerly anticipated encyclical, blaming global warming on an unfair, fossil fuel-based industrial model that harms the poor most.
The state's historic four-year dry spell has brought with it a flurry of finger-pointing. Now advocates, noting how California's water shortage ranks as the top public concern, are invoking the drought to bolster their own causes.
Last year in a Kansas City speech, President Obama said he received a letter from a young girl asking why there were no women on American currency.
President Barack Obama will travel to the Bay Area on Friday to address the U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco and attend Democratic fundraisers, according to White House officials.
Praise has been raining down on the World Champion Golden State Warriors in the hours since they end the franchise's 40 year title drought, including from the highest offices in the land.
Add another to the list of gay-friendly advertisers -- Chobani. The Greek yogurt company has released a romantic, undeniably hot commercial featuring a same-sex couple.
Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders on Tuesday announced a $115.4 billion budget that sends billions of dollars more to public schools and universities in the fiscal year that begins July 1 and boosts spending on social welfare programs that legislative leaders have made a priority.
California is slowly closing the digital divide, but a new survey shows millions of Californians still rely on dial-up Internet service or aren't online at all. The federal government is looking to change that.
Artificial trans fats can raise levels of "bad" cholesterol and lower "good" cholesterol, increasing the risk of heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
A Republican lawmaker in Sacramento became the only lawmaker from his party to vote for this year's budget, saying he was distracted by checking Facebook.
In a commencement address, Dave Chappelle said blacks should go ahead and draft Rachel Dolezal. "I'm sure her rebuttal will be illuminating," he said.
Larkspur, St. Helena, and Petaluma have the Bay Area's worst roads according to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
Randy Shaw, executive director for the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, talks about the district's history, how it got it's name, what led up to its seedy reputation and how it deals with gentrification while protecting housing.
California's social service programs suffered deep cuts in the last recession, and now Democrats who control both houses of the Legislature want to increase spending on them as the state rebounds.
Assemblywoman Shannon Grove touched off a firestorm of criticism when she blamed California's historic drought on abortion.
