Attorney General Harris Praises Supreme Court's Immigration Ruling
California Attorney General Kamala Harris is praising Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down several parts of a controversial Arizona immigration law enacted in 2010.
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris is praising Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down several parts of a controversial Arizona immigration law enacted in 2010.
If the Governor's tax proposal has any chance of passing in November, a government reform measure is due and legislators only have until June 28 to vote on any such measure.
The numbers have been crunched, revealing that for every $14 round trip ticket sold, the public has - or will - kick in nearly $100. In all, the subsidies for the new ferry service total roughly $94 million over a 20 year period.
A key policy committee recently approved legislation that would limit the state's participation in a federal fingerprinting program that calls for local jails to help immigration officials deport arrestees who are in the United States illegally.
California's biggest state worker union has tentatively agreed to a plan where covered workers will take 12 unpaid days of leave over 12 months starting July 1.
The Obama administration is sending millions of dollars to the Bay Area to help pay for transportation improvements. The money will go to San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood and the Port of Oakland.
A closely-watched effort to impose a new tax on tobacco to pay for cancer research in the nation's most populous state has failed by six tenths of a percentage point.
The chief witness in favor of California's same-sex marriage ban at a landmark federal trial in San Francisco two years ago announced today he has changed his position.
The revised budget agreement between legislative Democrats and Governor Brown calls for the phasing out of California's successful Healthy Families program, which provides state-sponsored, low-cost insurance for children, teens and pregnant mothers.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced Thursday plans for a major expansion of the city's Moscone Convention Center. Exhibit space at the center could double with the expansion, the first phase of which is expected to be completed by early 2018, Lee said.
The plan was in effect last weekend for the U.S. open and again this weekend for Pride.
A concession lease up for approval Thursday that allows for private parties at Coit Tower once a month violates the spirit of a non-binding measure recently approved by voters urging the city to limit commercial activity at the popular landmark, preservationists said.
Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic leaders reached agreement Thursday to finalize California's budget.
Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith and her office are defending assigning a deputy to protect the president of the Board of Supervisors, even after canceling that deputy's planned three-day training course in Las Vegas.
"As one of the top law enforcement officials for the city, he ought not to have engaged in the beating of his wife," Mayor Ed Lee told reporters at an impromptu news conference shortly before the city's Ethics Commission opened a multi-day administrative hearing on official misconduct charges.
