Plan For PG&E Public Takeover Unveiled In California Senate
A California lawmaker unveiled legislation Monday aimed at transforming the nation's largest electric utility into a publicly owned company.
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A California lawmaker unveiled legislation Monday aimed at transforming the nation's largest electric utility into a publicly owned company.
Millions of Californians have little or no choice when it comes to choosing a state legislator.
California has completed 34 of the forest thinning projects it rushed to finish in the past year as a way to buffer 200 communities at high risk from wildfires.
When running for governor, Gavin Newsom promised to end the euthanasia of adoptable pets in shelters across the state. Now his proposed budget includes money to begin that process.
A California father about to be freed from prison has been taken into custody in connection with the decades-old killings of five of his infant children in a case a sheriff said has haunted his agency for years.
California's Democratic leaders were defiant Friday after the Trump administration threatened to cut federal health care funding to the nation's most populous state over its requirement that insurance plans cover abortions.
A judge has ruled California's law allowing terminally people to end their lives was passed legitimately during a special session of the Legislature.
Amid California's ongoing housing woes, the number of people moving from California to Texas has grown more than 30 percent in a year, according to a new report.
The Trump administration on Friday threatened California with a potential loss of federal health care funds over the state's requirement that insurance plans cover abortions.
Legislation in California that advanced on Thursday would require products that cannot be flushed down the toilet to be clearly labeled as such.
Freelance writers and newspaper carriers would be exempted from a broad new California labor law requiring that many be treated as employees rather than independent contractors, under legislation announced Thursday.
The Trump administration on Thursday published new visa rules aimed at restricting "birth tourism," in which women travel to the United States to give birth so their children can have U.S. citizenship.
hat kind of winter is California having? This year, trying to answer that presents another question, and that is how would one like to do the measuring? That is exactly the kind of thing they work on at U.C. Davis.
Recycling centers in California have been going out of business at an alarming rate, leading lawmakers in Sacramento consider ways to revamp the system for recycling cans and bottles.
Three Democratic presidential hopefuls are leading the California primary race, according to survey results released Monday by the San Francisco-based Public Policy Institute of California.
An advisory council appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom called Monday for California voters to consider a legally enforceable mandate to end homelessness, as the most populous state grapples with one of its most pressing and politically fraught problems.
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to give $20,000 stipends to teachers at high needs schools and extend health care to older low-income immigrants who are in the country illegally. He outlined the plans during an announcement Friday of his $222 billion budget proposal.
California could become the first state with its own prescription drug label under a proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled Thursday.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Wednesday directing agencies under his command to identify state land that could be used as temporary shelter locations for the homeless.
A controversial bill aimed at increasing the housing supply across California was reintroduced Tuesday morning.
The Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City mayor likes a lot of what he sees in the Golden State.
A years-long battle over public access to a popular Peninsula beach has moved to a new level as the state of California has filed suit against a Silicon Valley billionaire who is blocking the only road to the beach.
A federal judge will not temporarily exempt freelance journalists and photographers from a broad new California labor law.
Lawyers for the Democratic-led House of Representatives as well as California and other Democratic-led states asked the Supreme Court Friday to immediately step in to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act.
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a new California labor law from impacting more than 70,000 independent truckers.
