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The latest long-term forecast shows a dwindling chance of an El Niño weather system developing for the Pacific, which means that hopes for California getting out of this drought are drying up too.
With California in desperate need for a wet winter to relieve the state's drought, scientists with the National Weather Service said that the chance of an El Nino to develop later this year is less likely.
Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose, Wednesday announced legislation that would block civilians from accessing military-grade body armor to prevent criminals from using them in gun battles with law enforcement.
A California Assemblywoman drafted a bill for the CalWorks program that would give qualifying families $80 a month to spend on diapers for children under age 2.
Palo Alto officials are targeting water-wasting activities like washing down sidewalks and irrigating to the point of saturation. City council approved the new series of restrictions late Monday night.
A bill that would ban profit making off mugshots is headed to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk. There are at least 80 Internet companies that post mugshots and then offer to remove them for a price.
California could become the first state to allow family members, licensed therapists and health care providers to petition a judge to take firearms from someone who has shown signs that they could harm others or themselves.
The current drought is covering all of California in extreme ways. It's the third driest year in 106 years of record keeping according to Jay Lund of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, our guest for this week's In Depth.
Using voting records and a national survey, two political science professors ranked all 50 state legislatures according to how far apart their left wing and right wing politicians are. California blew away the competition. Colorado and Arizona and Washington followed the Golden State.
A state appellate court has handed a big win to California's high-speed rail project, overturning two lower court rulings that stalled funding for the $68 billion train.
Officials with Covered California announced on Wednesday that ten insurance companies will offer plans through the state's health insurance exchange next year. Average premium rates, however, will also increase.
You don't have to travel the world to enjoy fabulous whale watching. Here are five of the best U.S. whale watching tours.
Electric car maker Tesla Motors says it is preparing a site near Reno, Nevada, as a possible location for its new battery factory, but is still evaluating other locations.
Sacramento officials are canceling the city's annual Gold Rush Days festivities in Old Sacramento because of the ongoing drought.
Two million customers from San Francisco's Water Department are getting a collective pat on the back for reducing water consumption by at least 10 percent this summer.
California's public universities will begin a new academic year in a matter of weeks, with a new focus on campus-related sexual assaults; how to prevent them and how to respond to them. One Cal student is closely involved in the UC process for improving this aspect of campus safety.
Despite California's ongoing drought, municipal water is being bottled—and in some case shipped out of state—for profit.
Venture capitalist Tim Draper sat down with Stephen Colbert on last night's 'Colbert Report' to discuss his 'Six Californias' plan, the economic problems of keeping the state whole, and just how easy it is to get a proposal like this on the state ballot.
A federal judge said Wednesday that he will consider whether California's policy of locking up prisoners by race violates the constitutional rights of the roughly 125,000 male inmates within the state prison system.
In a unanimous vote, the Santa Clara Valley Water District approved hiring up to 10 people to respond to complaints about people wasting water in the county.
California Governor Jerry Brown has nominated a Stanford Law School professor, Mexican immigrant and former advisor to President Obama on Immigration policy to the State Supreme Court.
California's high-speed rail project could be getting a financial shot in the arm from the private sector.
California is making a late push to land electric-car maker, Tesla Motors' new high-tech battery factory that would create thousands of jobs.
A California fruit packing company announced a recall for some of it's peaches, plums, nectarines and pluots after the some of the products tested positive for listeria, a potentially dangerous food-borne bacterium.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 2.5 struck an area near the unincorporated community of Blackhawk in Contra Costa County Sunday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
