Overnight Spraying In South Bay Targets West Nile Virus
Insecticides were sprayed overnight Thursday in parts of Santa Clara and Sunnyvale in an effort to kill adult mosquitoes carrying the West Nile Virus.
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Insecticides were sprayed overnight Thursday in parts of Santa Clara and Sunnyvale in an effort to kill adult mosquitoes carrying the West Nile Virus.
Calling it a major change in the history of California's unemployment program, the Employment Development Department is now sending out debit cards instead of traditional checks to people receiving unemployment benefits.
The state's Assembly Public Safety Committee has voted in favor of a bill that would get rid of the death penalty in California.
Just as California's wildfire season begins, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has had to cut the contract for the nation's biggest firefighting jet.
A California legislative committee on Wednesday narrowly approved a bill that would give state officials the power to reject proposed health insurance rate increases, but even some supporters said it will need major changes to survive.
A bill that would require California's public schools to include the history of gay rights in their curricula won final legislative approval on Tuesday.
California's State Controller John Chiang has released another report showing the high salaries of some state employees.
A bill that would allow state officials to reject rate increases proposed by health insurers is under intense lobbying pressure as it faces a key committee vote this week.
California lawmakers have sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first requiring public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in their social studies curriculum.
The sighting of a gray whale off the coast of Israel has scientists concerned about what it could mean for climate change.
Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democrats who dominate the California Legislature on Wednesday celebrated the rare enactment of a state budget before the fiscal year begins.
Every Californian with a vehicle will pay $12 more a year to register it, and millions of property owners who live outside cities will pay $150 annually for state fire protection.
Democrats hoping to regain the majority in the House in 2012 might get a strong head start in California, where voters have handed the authority for drawing political boundaries to an independent citizens' commission.
On the eve of San Francisco's Pride weekend comes amid new Census figures that include the first detailed tally of gay and lesbian couples in California.
Few tears are being shed for California lawmakers as the man who cuts the state's paychecks decided that the Legislature will not be paid their salaries until they balance the state's annual spending plan.
Governor Jerry Brown could submit a new plan for a balanced budget as early as Wednesday, after vetoing the one passed by the legislature last week.
A Field Poll finds voter support dwindling for the building of more nuclear power plants in California, but a majority believes the state's existing plants are safe.
California's state controller on Tuesday halted paychecks for state lawmakers, saying their recently-submitted budget plan to Gov. Jerry Brown was not balanced as required by law.
Feinstein first won national office in 1992, and this represents her highest disapproval rating in the year before an election since she became a California senator.
With 10 days left before California starts a new fiscal year, Democratic and Republican lawmakers are looking to Gov. Jerry Brown for his next move. What that is, he's not saying.
Governor Brown's unexpected veto on Thursday, California still does not have a budget and state lawmakers are scratching their heads about what to do next.
With lawmakers united only in their anger at Gov. Jerry Brown, the coming days and weeks won't be pretty, experts predict.
Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed the Democratic budget plan approved Wednesday in the Legislature, restarting talks over how to close California's $9.6 billion deficit.
A just released water policy report finds consumers paid dearly during California's most recent drought in the form of higher energy prices, and environmental strain.
Despite the uncertainty over state funding, schools in the San Jose Unified School District will be in session for a full 180 days and there will be no teacher furloughs.
