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Some young people who currently reside in California illegally will soon be eligible for driver's licences if they successfully enroll in President Barack Obama's new work permit program, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
Six protesters were arrested Thursday night for holding a sit-in inside President Obama's campaign headquarters in Oakland and refusing to leave.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission upheld the official misconduct charges against suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi Thursday, in a 4-1 vote.
Now that Mitt Romney has announced the Paul Ryan is his vice presidential pick, both parties are salivating. The move appeals to the Republican base who had been less-than-enthusiastic about their presidential choice until now.
The State Senate has convened a panel to consider whether nonprofit hospitals in California provide enough charity care to deserve the tax-exempt status that grants them huge tax breaks and subsidies.
Opponents of Gov. Jerry Brown's tax plan said they hope to tap voter outrage over how Sacramento has managed taxpayer money in order to seize the lead in a campaign where the governor has a clear fundraising advantage.
Suspended San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi returns one last time in front of the city's Ethics Commission Thursday when the commission would make a recommendation on whether he should be removed from office.
San Francisco's Municipal Railway said it won't be removing controversial ads from Muni buses because of the potential costs of removing them, but will instead give the ad's revenue to the Human Rights Commission.
Immigrants and advocates in San Francisco celebrated Wednesday's start of the federal government's new deferred deportation policy, but at the same time urged young people applying for the program to make sure they get good legal advice.
California Governor Jerry Brown kicked off his campaign for Proposition 30, his ballot measure to raise taxes, in Sacramento on Wednesday and said he isn't afraid about the impact of the still-growing state parks scandal.
California Sen. Barbara Boxer is backing the president's immigration deferral policy which could impact the lives of almost two million young people living in the U.S. illegally. They could potentially extend their stay in the country for two years starting Wednesday.
A sworn court declaration said a former state parks employee told state attorneys earlier this year that her department was hiding $20 million in a special fund, months before administration officials say they discovered the surplus money.
A Bay Area's author's new book claims that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authorized raids against California pot dispensaries last year to create a distraction from the failed "Fast and Furious" gun sting operation.
The University of California is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to make Texas suffer the same lack of diversity that it argues has plagued UC ever since the passage of Proposition 209.
The leader of the California State Senate has apologized for his office's last-minute decision not to televise a legislative hearing that included testimony about Gov. Jerry Brown's tax initiative.
