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Environmental and land preservation groups are concerned about a growing number of solar generating plants being targeted on prime farmland across California's San Joaquin Valley.
Gov. Jerry Brown was one of the few California politicians yet to announce a bet on Sunday's Super Bowl matchup, until he offered up a characteristically esoteric wager.
Hispanics will become the largest ethnic group in the nation's most populous state early next year, the California Department of Finance said Thursday, marking a big milestone in a long-running demographic shift that has already deeply altered the political balance of power, the economy and culture.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan on Friday hailed her city's first step in issuing municipal identification cards as an important step in "fighting for more equity and justice in our country and having a more perfect union."
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, announced his resignation Friday, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
The doors of what's considered the world's largest medical marijuana dispensary remain open, as lawsuits over its future continue in a federal court.
Nudists were planning a clothing-optional protest Friday at San Francisco City Hall as a new nudity ban adopted by supervisors last year becomes effective.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is making one of his biggest bets yet on the 49ers when the team takes on the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl this Sunday, city officials said.
Members of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals took advantage of the last day to be legally nude in public in San Francisco by stripping down in front of City Hall Thursday.
San Francisco's new archbishop Salvatore Cordileone told an English Catholic newspaper that legalizing same-sex marriage was akin to legalizing male-breastfeeding.
A handful of guns rights supporters gathered in front of California U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein's San Francisco office to protest her proposed assault weapons ban. Meanwhile she faces an uphill battle on Capitol Hill to push her assault weapons ban through a senate judiciary committee.
Supervisor Eric Mar said he wants a thorough study of the problem and a hearing to develop ways to stop it from continuing to happen.
California law enforcement officials said that close to 20,000 registered gun owners in the state are not supposed to have guns, but they still do.
California lawmakers promised Tuesday to move cautiously as they consider tighter restrictions on handguns, assault rifles and ammunition purchases, proposals that would add to state regulations already among the toughest in the nation.
U. S. District Court Judge Edward Chen said nudists's claims that the law violates free speech rights lacked merit.
