California Assembly OKs Bill To Tax Online Retailers
The state of California could collect more than $1 billion a year by taxing Amazon and other online retailers if a bill approved by the Assembly becomes law.
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The state of California could collect more than $1 billion a year by taxing Amazon and other online retailers if a bill approved by the Assembly becomes law.
Better-than-expected tax revenues may help San Francisco avoid mass layoffs as it struggles to close a $306-million budget deficit.
There has apparently been a major population shift in Alameda County over the past decade.
Elected officials from throughout Marin County have joined together in an effort to address the pressing issue of pension reform - something that is impacting towns and cities throughout the county.
A State Assemblyman from Santa Rosa's bill to end using DUI checkpoints as a target to immigrant communities is now headed to the Senate.
San Francisco's Mayor Ed Lee said he will sign a measure to extend tax relief to growing companies that offer stock options to keep them in the city.
A state Senate committee has killed a bill that would have prohibited lawmakers from receiving free spa treatments, sports tickets and rounds of golf.
California senators rejected a bill Friday designed to increase privacy on social networking sites, persuaded by objections from some of the burgeoning industry's biggest players.
Is the sales tax headed higher in San Francisco? Perhaps.
Democrats in California's Assembly joined other states Thursday in questioning the federal system that uses fingerprints to check the immigration status of people picked up by police.
San Francisco has banned the unsolicited distribution of Yellow Pages with the first such ordinance in the nation.
Widespread support for a charter amendment to overhaul San Francisco's public employee pension system has not deterred the public defender from collecting signatures to put a competing measure on the November ballot.
Did former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger misuse taxpayer funds to cover up sexual liaisons?
California's university and college systems are dropping their opposition to a bill that would force their foundations to make more records accessible to the public.
A liberal legal scholar is withdrawing his nomination to an appeals court judgeship after Senate Republicans blocked a vote on his confirmation last week.
