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It wasn't entirely a redemptive, feel-good story this week with Aaron Rodgers. With his success, Green Bay's Super Bowl savior also shined a light on the quarterback situation at his alma mater, California.
Of the four attacks in California last year, the most notable was the October attack by a great white shark off the central California coast that killed a body-surfer.
California and Maryland prison officials said Friday they have suspended youthful offender diversion programs featured on the television show "Beyond Scared Straight."
In an exclusive interview with KCBS, Governor Jerry Brown is rejecting a new idea being floated by some GOP legislators: let California voters consider tax cuts, as well as tax increase extensions.
The teen birth rate dropped to a new low in 2009, according to a state public health report released Tuesday.
Gov. Jerry Brown urged lawmakers to let California voters decide the direction of the state as it faces a gaping budget deficit, saying it would be "unconscionable" for them to block his request for a special election.
Gov. Jerry Brown is halting new-vehicle purchases by the state of California and ordering vehicles that are not essential for state business to be turned in.
A majority of California voters agree with Governor Jerry Brown's approach to the budget, according to a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California.
The state's unemployment rate is well above the nation's rate, which decreased to 9.4% in December.
Gov. Jerry Brown tried Wednesday to sell his budget proposal to skeptical local government officials, many of whom are concerned about his plan to eliminate the redevelopment agencies they rely on for building projects.
A state assemblyman is seeking a constitutional amendment that would prohibit a California governor from issuing last-minute pardons and commutations.
Blue Shield of California is planning to go forward with scheduled health insurance rate increases despite calls from government regulators to delay the move.
Cities and counties would shoulder much more of the responsibility for fighting wild land fires in the budget unveiled this week by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The state has the money to keep offering subsidies to help low-income families pay for childcare, Assembly Speaker John Perez said Friday.
Scientists dub it California's "other Big One," a series of storms capable of costing three times as much as a severe Southern California earthquake.
Cut spending and raise taxes, and do it all on a very short timeline. That's what state lawmakers were told Thursday that they must do to bring California's financial house back into order on the first day of budget hearings at the state capitol.
The tax extensions in Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal last only five years, and closing the $25 billion deficit will require difficult cuts.
The Legislature's nonpartisan analyst on Wednesday called Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal a "good starting point" for rebuilding state government but cautioned that it carries a lot of risk.
Gun sales are surging in California since the Tucson shootings, and two new California sheriffs want to make it easier for Californians to carry concealed weapons.
Gov. Jerry Brown is hanging up his state-issued cell phone, and he's ordered half the state bureaucrats who have government-paid cell phones to do the same.
Gov. Jerry Brown has been cagey about his spending plans for California, offering few specifics about how he'll tackle a $28 billion budget deficit.
Gov. Jerry Brown announced Friday that he is eliminating the Secretary of Education position and slashing the governor's office by 25 percent as he tries to make good on a campaign promise to cut government spending.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones are vowing to push back against massive health insurance rate hikes proposed by Blue Shield.
Bleak financial conditions are facing California schools after three years of cuts to education, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson said Thursday.
Governor Jerry Brown named his wife Anne Gust, a former corporate lawyer for the Gap, as an unpaid advisor to his administration.
