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Seventeen House Democrats and newly elected members have signed a letter vowing to vote against Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, which could leave the Democratic leader short of 218 votes she needs.
San Francisco city officials broke ground Wednesday on the future site of 80 new affordable housing units in the city's Mission District, which will bring much needed housing to the neighborhood's low-income residents.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has installed an automated kiosk at Santa Clara's Central Park library branch, hoping to steer drivers clear of the dreaded lines found at DMV offices statewide.
Almost three in five Americans said they'd prefer another Democrat as speaker of the House over past party leader Nancy Pelosi, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon Tuesday connected anti-immigrant rhetoric made by President Donald Trump to a rise in hate crimes last year in the U.S.
Residents of Paradise, the town ravaged by the Camp Fire, held a town hall meeting in Chico Tuesday evening, since the Paradise City Hall was out of commission, with no running power or water.
Two nonprofit groups filed a public records lawsuit against San Jose alleging a lack of transparency in the city's dealings with Google for a new "mega-campus" near Diridon Station.
The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday encouraging the county's Office of Emergency Services to expand its current emergency alert notification system to a greater number of residents.
California's incoming governor said Tuesday his transition started with a "reality check" as the state contended with a mass shooting and two deadly wildfires.
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez paid her first visit to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's Capitol Hill office on Tuesday -- alongside a group of millennial protesters staging a sit-in over climate change.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says he's cancelled a planned trip to Asia at the direction of the White House and will instead travel to California to support efforts to contain the deadly wildfires scorching large areas of the state.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi raised millions for a select group of candidates who were instrumental in flipping the chamber for Democrats. And now, some are considering whether to oust her.
Critics of the President's comments that California's devastating fires are due to 'forest mismanagement' point out that the federal government owns more than half of California's forest land.
After being criticized for what many called insensitive tweets about the California wildfires over the weekend, President Donald Trump on Monday evening approved an expedited request for a major disaster declaration in the state.
Democrats have won two Republican-held California state Senate seats in the Central Valley, giving the party veto-proof supermajorities in both chambers of the Legislature.
