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Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed a controversial bill that would have allowed public state universities to consider race as a relevant factor in their admission policies.
San Francisco's Chief of Police is being applauded by the Board of Supervisors for outlining guidelines on what exactly community policing means.
The latest round of laws signed by Gov. Brown includes one that would give non-profit organizations the opportunity to run some of the 70 state parks slated for closure.
Federal prosecutors in California announced Friday a full-press crackdown on the state's commercial marijuana industry, saying they will not allow large-scale, for-profit enterprises in the name of medical marijuana.
Six state bills on gas pipeline safety written in response to a deadly Sept. 9, 2010 explosion in San Bruno were signed into law Friday.
California's governor has signed a bill banning the sale, trade or possession of shark fins, joining several other states in trying to protect the dwindling shark population.
Former ambassador Karl Eikenberry said the U.S. has achieved many of the objectives of the war launched less than a month after the September 11th terror attacks.
An Energy Department adviser and former fundraiser for President Barack Obama pushed for Solyndra to receive a half-billion federal loan, despite pledging to recuse himself because his wife's law firm represented the company.
Federal prosecutors have launched a crackdown on pot dispensaries in California, warning the stores that they must shut down in 45 days or face criminal charges and confiscation of their property even if they are operating legally under the state's 15-year-old medical marijuana law.
Caltrain ridership is actually up despite the struggling transit service threatening to cut service earlier this year.
Women in California are now guaranteed maternity care under a pair of bills signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
President Obama made his staunchest defense yet of the failed half-billion dollar federal loan to now-bankrupt Solyndra at a Thursday news conference.
High speed rail on the Peninsula isn't the only controversial segment of the route that will someday connect every major California city. KCBS and Chronicle Insider Phil Matier said that the High Speed Rail Authority is now revising the route between Fresno and Bakersfield, after some spirited opposition.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill making it a misdemeanor to smuggle cell phones to California inmates while also ordering corrections officials to crack down on the problem.
San Francisco supervisors have approved a key change to the city's Healthy San Francisco program that could end up costing business owners.
