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A Bay Area newspaper is calling attention to what it says is a costly and little-known perk of public employment -- having some or all of the employee's pension contributions covered by taxpayers.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said in San Francisco Friday she was optimistic that Congress could soon pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill.
One of the largest groups engaged in what is called gay-conversion therapy has shut down and apologized and a local lawmaker is relieved.
Alameda County's chief probation officer is expressing uncertainty over the release of state prison inmates ordered by federal courts.
The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee says she's against the force-feeding of hunger strikers at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and she's expressed her concerns to the secretary of defense.
Seeking to quell a media outcry over access to public records, the governor's administration on Thursday said it agrees with a fix-it bill moving through the Legislature that restores a mandate for local governments to comply with document requests.
Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday he will ask the courts to stay what he calls an "unprecedented order" to release nearly 10,000 prison inmates by year's end.
On the eve of an expected U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on California's Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban, a newly released KPIX-TV poll finds that only 35% of Californians feel the court should uphold the ban.
California lawmakers will get a pay raise of nearly $5,000 this year while the governor will see an increase of nearly $9,000 after a citizens' panel voted Wednesday to restore some of the cuts it made during the recession.
Who knew Chuck Reed had that kind of curveball in his arsenal? San Jose's mayor shocked Major League Baseball Tuesday by filing a lawsuit against Bud and his so-called "Blue Ribbon Committee."
Google petitioned the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday for permission to explain to the public exactly how often the company has been asked to provide users' data for the purpose of national security.
A week after a San Francisco bar said it would no longer be able to allow the "Tamale Lady" to serve her famous food at its establishment, a city supervisor said Tuesday he is working on a solution.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee raised the LGBT rainbow flag at City Hall late Tuesday morning, ushering in Pride Month and optimism about an upcoming decision on marriage equality from the U.S. Supreme Court.
The union representing 95,000 state employees have reached a tentative contract agreement that includes a 4.5 percent pay raise over a two-year period, but the governor will decide exactly when they get it.
Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings has died in a car accident in Los Angeles. He won a Polk Award for magazine reporting for a story that was credited with ending Gen. Stanley McChrystal's career after it revealed the military's candid criticisms of the Obama administration.
