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As California State University students face another tuition hike this fall, an investigation by the CBS station in Los Angeles has found questionable spending by the chancellor's office.
If voters approve the tax measure Lance Armstrong is championing in the June primary, smokers in the nation's most populous state will pay an extra $1 for each pack they buy, raising hundreds of millions of dollars.
A June ballot measure to preserve San Francisco's historic Coit Tower and its 27 WPA murals is pitting preservationists against park advocates.
The San Diego City Council has voted unanimously to rename a street after gay civil rights hero Harvey Milk. Milk was assassinated less than a year after he took public office in San Francisco on the Board of Supervisors.
University of California students could face significantly higher tuition if the state doesn't increase funding and voters don't approve the governor's tax initiative.
State Senators Joe Simitian and Noreen Evans unveiled a budget plan Tuesday to prevent 70 state parks from closing in July.
Personal income tax receipts were about $2 billion less than projected in April.
Oakland city officials are facing a federal judge's deadline to submit a plan on how it will complete investigations into how the police department handled last fall's Occupy protests.
High-profile advocates of same-sex marriage in San Francisco are thrilled that two high-ranking members of the Obama administration seem to have changed their positions on gay marriage.
San Francisco's public school teachers plan to take an initial strike vote on Thursday after last week's declaration of an impasse over contract negotiations.
First-term Democratic lawmaker Luis Alejo of Watsonville surprised his girlfriend during Monday's floor session when he took the microphone and proposed as his Assembly colleagues looked on.
We've seen reactions of grief over the early loss of Beastie Boys' Adam Yaunch from celebrities, musicians, station staff and listeners. Now Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi...
Monday marked the first day of voting for the June primary election. Ballots for the June 5 contest were going out, and in-person voting was an option at local registrar's offices.
Occupy activists who broke locks and set up an encampment on University of California, Berkeley agricultural research land in Albany have refused to leave.
Vice President Joe Biden went where President Barack Obama hasn't yet gone: in support of same-sex marriage, saying he's "absolutely comfortable" with it.
