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Waves of emotion swept over Tamika Turner as she stood near the spot where her brother, 29-year-old De'vazia Turner, was gunned down in a deadly salvo of gunfire that claimed five other lives and left 12 others wounded.
A bill requiring parents to tell school officials if they keep guns in the house went "too far" according to some legislators and it died in committee Wednesday.
California awarded Oakland and San Francisco a combined $22 million in state grants to convert hotels in each city into permanent housing for homeless residents, Gov. Gavin Newsom's office said Wednesday.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Wednesday that state authorities seized almost 1,500 illegal weapons last year.
Capitol Corridor on Tuesday announced a 30 percent discount on all one-way and round trips on the train line between the Sacramento area and the South Bay is being extended through June after initially being set to expire this week.
A 16-year-old girl reported missing in Oakland was found dead with a gunshot wound at an apartment in Sacramento earlier this month, authorities said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his gas rebate plan Wednesday, which would send Californians who own cars up to $800 from the state to help offset record high gas prices.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Tuesday that will make abortions cheaper for people on private insurance plans.
California has not effectively used surplus properties owned by the state to help alleviate the affordable housing crisis, according to an audit that recommends agencies hire staff and accelerate the rate at which parcels are offered for development.
California joined other states this week in efforts to remove "involuntary servitude" as a constitutionally protected form of punishment, a move aimed at formally severing the remnants of slavery from the law.
A long-delayed plan to build a giant reservoir in Colusa County to help withstand the west coast's notorious droughts got a huge boost on Thursday when the federal government signaled its intent to loan the project nearly $2.2 billion — or about half the cost.
Instead of relying on the market or the courts to keep health care prices in check, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to order the state's hospitals, doctors' offices and insurance companies to keep their costs below a certain level.
The gunman who killed his three daughters, a chaperone who was supervising his visit with the children and himself in a Northern California church this week was armed with an unregistered ghost gun.
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a plan Thursday to force homeless people with severe mental health and addiction disorders into treatment.
The names of all five people killed, including three children, after a shooting at a church in Sacramento County on Monday have now been released by authorities.
Three young girls and their chaperone are dead after their father shot and killed them and then turned the gun on himself during a supervised visit at a church in Sacramento.
An 18-year-old Sacramento woman suspected of causing the fatal overdose of a 14-year-old girl in Lodi was arraigned on voluntary manslaughter and other charges, according to San Joaquin County prosecutors.
Sacramento's Aftershock Festival announced its 2022 lineup and headliners on Wednesday.
State Sen. Brian Dahle plans to announce his candidacy for governor Tuesday, making him one of the first Republicans to publicly challenge Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom after defeating an attempt to recall him five months ago.
The California Legislature passed a bill Monday requiring many companies to give workers up to two weeks of paid time off if they get sick from the coronavirus.
Political opportunities, term limits and a once-a-decade redistricting process have combined to prompt a flurry of early exits from the California Assembly this year, leaving the chamber with an unusually-high number of vacancies.
Emergency healthcare workers in northern and southern California complained of hours-long waits to transfer patients from ambulances to hospital emergency rooms Wednesday in what they said were chronic delays worsened by the nearly two-year COVID-19 pandemic.
An Oakland man was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison after being convicted in a series of armed robberies of jewelry stores in California and Arizona, federal authorities said.
Renters in California may see the first increase to the state's rental tax credit in more than 40 years, according to state Sen. Steve Glazer's office.
Starting Thursday, gun owners in California receive a second chance to register and keep a type of firearm that is now illegal to buy under the state's expanded definition of assault weapons.
