Scientists Declare Earth's Super-Sized El Niño Over
Federal meteorologists proclaimed the end of the super-sized El Niño Thursday with much of Southern and Central California still in the midst of exceptional drought conditions.
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Federal meteorologists proclaimed the end of the super-sized El Niño Thursday with much of Southern and Central California still in the midst of exceptional drought conditions.
California on Thursday becomes the latest state to allow the terminally ill to legally choose to end their lives.
Smokers have to be 21 and older to buy tobacco products in California under a new law that takes effect Thursday.
Voter turnout in California's primary looked about average, despite a last-minute surge in registration and an unusually competitive presidential contest.
Proposition 50 will allow legislators to suspend their colleagues' privileges in the state Senate or Assembly.
California election workers embraced an expanded electorate totaling nearly 18 million registered voters with few hiccups Tuesday.
With the approach of Tuesday's primary, some voters are wondering why they can't cast their votes online.
A number of doctors in California say they feel uneasy about prescribing life-ending drugs for the terminally ill under a new law that goes into effect June 9.
An audit of the DMV aims to curb the number of non-handicap drivers who are gobbling up parking spaces all over California.
California is cracking down on the disabled parking placard program, and it's not just drivers.
California police have been flouting asset seizure laws, prompting action by state and federal lawmakers.
California is a step closer to adopting a new history and social studies teaching framework aimed at reflecting the state's diverse student population.
The California Assembly approved new rules for drone operators on Thursday.
A growing number of Californians are getting clobbered by surprise medical bills from doctors they don't know and have never even met.
Starting next month, hundreds of local water districts will set their own conservation goals after a wet winter eased the five-year drought in some parts of the state.
Nearly a dozen measures would significantly reshape California's gun laws, already among the strictest in the nation.
State agencies across America are putting millions at risk for identity theft when they mail documents with Social Security numbers.
"There are 1.5 million people in California that we know of that are drinking this stuff in their drinking water," Bill Walker of the Environmental Working Group says of toxic PFCs originating from fire suppressing foam.
The natural landscape of the Wild West is disappearing.
U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday that a five-year drought has left 40 million dead and fire-prone trees in California.
Beginning in July, a new system to track prescription painkillers becomes mandatory for doctors in California.
Gov. Jerry Brown will seek state funds to help establish a system that issues warnings that an earthquake is occurring.
Crabs that normally live off the Baja Peninsula are washing up on beaches in Southern California.
The Donald Trump campaign insists a white supremacist was included as one of its California delegates by mistake, and has been replaced.
Federal prosecutors say a California meat inspector who falsely certified that contaminated beef was free of E. coli has been sentenced to a year of home detention.
