Schwarzenegger, Lawmakers Cancel Budget Meeting
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders have canceled their scheduled budget talks, continuing a record-long impasse over enacting a state spending plan.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders have canceled their scheduled budget talks, continuing a record-long impasse over enacting a state spending plan.
California became the largest state to limit the toxic metal cadmium in children's jewelry on Monday, effectively creating a new national standard ahead of promised federal action.
Nearly a quarter of the way through California's fiscal year, legislative leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are scheduled to resume negotiations over closing the state's budget deficit.
The campaign for attorney general has tarnished the reputations of rival prosecutors from California's two most prominent cities while eclipsing what could be a robust debate over their conflicting positions on environmental law, gay marriage and criminal justice.
Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman face off Tuesday in their first gubernatorial debate, as new poll numbers show Brown edging his Silicon Valley rival.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Monday proposed a wide-ranging plan to rein in Washington's spending—ranging from a federal spending cap to letting people designate their taxes toward paying down debt.
Peninsula Congresswoman Jackie Speier is sponsoring a new law to make natural gas transmission lines safer.
One of the most hotly debated issues on the November ballot is Proposition 23 which would suspend California's global warming law until the unemployment rate drops to 5.5 percent for a year.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has taken the gloves off in his first ad backing his run for lieutenant governor.
John Yoo, the controversial UC Berkeley law professor who gained notoriety for drafting the Bush Administration's legal argument for using so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques, was among the attendees at Sunday's Mill Valley Tea Party rally.
A new Field Poll shows that a majority of California voters now support a proposition that would legalize recreational marijuana use in the state.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is making an appeal to Asian-American voters by emphasizing her desire to help owners of small businesses.
Owners of Fido and Fluffy won't get relief navigating insurance policies for their pets after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill requiring greater disclosure.
A proposed San Francisco law would ban toy giveaways with fatty fast-food meals.
Lawyers for death row inmate Albert Greenwood Brown point to election-year politics as the reason their client was suddenly scheduled for a lethal injection this week.
