California Democrats Show Optimism At Annual Convention
California Democrats are feeling optimistic and poised for next year's presidential battle as party leaders rallied their base at the annual convention in Sacramento.
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California Democrats are feeling optimistic and poised for next year's presidential battle as party leaders rallied their base at the annual convention in Sacramento.
Gov. Jerry Brown's office says he has had surgery to remove a cancerous growth on his nose.
A federal appeals court rejected a legal challenge Friday that sought to bar implementation of a California regulation meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by forcing automakers to make and sell less polluting cars in the state.
A group of California business and political leaders has formed an exploratory committee to look into bringing the Winter Olympics to the state.
Fifty years ago, the first African-American justice on the California Court of Appeal was appointed by Gov. Edmund "Pat" Brown.
A former California correctional officer was sentenced to 45 days in jail Friday for smuggling cell phones to state prison inmates.
A legislative report released Thursday suggests that California is putting its elderly population at risk of theft and abuse because the state does not regulate in-home caregivers.
State officials have boosted the amount of water available to agencies that supply 25 million California residents and farms that cover almost a million acres.
A KPIX-TV CBS 5 poll finds growing disatisfaction among Californians about President Obama's job performance.
The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office said Tuesday that the average correctional officer already has nearly 19 weeks of accumulated leave time, valued at $600 million.
President Barack Obama has declared a disaster in California to assist in its recovery from last month's tsunami.
Lawyers for two same-sex couples who sued to overturn California's gay marriage ban want a federal appeals court to make videotapes of the case's lower court trial public.
California's unemployment rate has dropped to 12 percent, but the number of payroll jobs in the state in March also fell from the previous month.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom staged something of a bipartisan summit Thursday in Austin, where a delegation from the Golden State came to see how jobs are being created in the Lone Star State.
When it comes to creating a favorable climate for business, California's natural environment may be more important than the regulatory one created by state lawmakers, according to new research.
The sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban want the now-retired federal judge who declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional to surrender videotapes of the trial that led to his ruling.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation requiring California utilities to get one-third of their power from renewable sources, giving the state the most aggressive alternative energy mandate in the U.S.
California lawmakers are looking to expand the state's workplace smoking ban, adding hotel lobbies, break rooms and even tobacco stores to the list of places where you can't light up.
The Solano County Sheriff expects an influx of about 400 new inmates in local jails over the next three years under a new law that requires county facilities to house low-level state prison inmates.
An independent state watchdog unit said dozens of employees at a California prison were paid more than $270,000 for hours they did not work.
A state legislative committee has rejected a Republican lawmaker's bills targeting illegal immigration in California.
California would collect more of the taxes people owe when they buy items online from out-of-state companies under a bill that is moving through the state Legislature over the objections of Amazon.com and other Internet retailers.
For the first time in four years California's recreational Chinook salmon fishermen are gearing up for what is expected to be a normal-length season.
It has been months since the cash for appliances rebate program ended, and many Californians are still waiting for their checks from the state.
California lawmakers moved ahead Thursday with a bill that would make it easier for farmworkers to unionize, acting over the objections of Republicans and the business community.
