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A Facebook reminder for users to register to vote prompted nearly 200,000 completed transactions on the state's online voter registration website over the weekend, according to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla.
Looking to curb distracted driving in California, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that expands restrictions on cellphone use behind the wheel.
Californians who see an animal trapped in a hot car can now break a window to set them free without fear of prosecution under a bill signed over the weekend by Gov. Jerry Brown.
Five Bay Area cities will be voting on whether to implement rent control in November, but a California law has long-restricted rent control statewide.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced today the launch of an online tool to provide information about police shootings of civilians and civilian shootings of officers statewide.
A top U.S. immigration official says 40,000 Haitians may be on their way to the United States amid what she calls an "emergency situation" on California's border with Mexico.
All 800 police departments in California must begin using a new online tool launched Thursday to report and help track every time officers use force.
Tomatoes are abundant at many farmer's markets at this time of the year, but a little pest could change that in the future.
Chemical manufacturing giant Dow fails to warn people in farming communities throughout California when a potentially dangerous pesticide is applied to nearby fields, health advocates claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
California took in more Syrian refugees this year than any other U.S. state, while some states haven't accepted a single Syrian refugee.
Two years after California passed a law requiring drivers to give bicyclists at least three feet of space when passing, few motorists seem to be aware of the law, and enforcement of it is spotty, at best.
School districts around the country are looking to fill teaching positions as a shortage lingers well into the start of a new year.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation that regulates emissions from dairy cows and landfills for the first time as California broadens its efforts to fight climate change beyond carbon-based greenhouse gases.
Toxic algae has shown up in more than 40 state lakes and waterways from Los Angeles to the northern reaches of California, the highest count in state history.
Fighting fire with fire may be the real solution to solving California's ever-worsening wildfire seasons, according to an expert at UC Berkeley.
A California ballot measure proposes an end to the death penalty, but there may not be enough support.
The cannabis race in California may be closer than anyone thought.
Farmworkers in the nation's largest agricultural state will be entitled to the same overtime pay as most other hourly workers under a new law.
A researcher may have figured out why albino redwoods turn white in the middle of deep green California redwood forests.
Voters across these states do bemoan the loss of national unity that they felt in the aftermath of the terror attacks.
California will further slash greenhouse gas emissions after Gov. Jerry Brown extended the nation's most ambitious climate change law by another 10 years.
Humpback whales have made such a comeback that most of them are being taken off the Endangered Species list, but not the ones we see off the California coast.
Californians' water use kept creeping back up in July after the lifting of mandatory statewide conservation orders for the drought.
The Bay Area janitorial labor union's message is clear – It's time to end sexual harassment of female janitors who worked the overnight shift.
Southern Nevada is spending Labor Day weekend under an air quality advisory thanks to wildfire smoke from California.
