Gov. Brown Signs Bill To Prevent Male Circumcision Bans In California
Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill that that will prevent local governments from banning male circumcision.
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Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill that that will prevent local governments from banning male circumcision.
Two San Francisco firefighters, who lost their lives battling a blaze in Diamond Heights in June, were honored posthumously in Sacramento.
Attorneys for Democratic candidates and committees trying to recover from an alleged embezzlement scheme appealed Friday to California's political watchdog agency.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit police force was the focus of a lawmakers' hearing in Sacramento Tuesday, and there were plenty of questions about the status of reforms following two deadly shootings by BART police officers.
Two Sacramento-area postal workers are facing the prospect of lengthy prison terms over allegations they stole hundreds of iPhones from the mail.
The principal of a Sacramento-area elementary school has been arrested on child molestation charges after a six-week investigation.
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating after two workers were injured when a crane set up to perform maintenance on a ride at a fun park near Sacramento collapsed along with part of the ride.
Twenty people, including nine children, were taken to Sacramento-area hospitals Monday after a high concentration of chlorine was released into the wave pool at Raging Waters.
Budget records released this month by the Assembly should have provided a detailed look at the spending by California lawmakers.
The FBI is asking for the public's help in finding a 2-year-old Sacramento girl who has been missing with her father since Sunday.
Meat giant Cargill is recalling 36 million pounds of ground turkey linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak that has killed one person in California and sickened at least 76 others.
State health officials say a Northern California resident is the lone known death in a spate of salmonella poisonings across the country that appear to be linked to eating ground turkey meat.
California's secretary of state on Tuesday cleared a group to begin collecting signatures for a ballot referendum to overturn a first-in-the-nation law requiring public schools to teach the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies lessons.
A Northern California man who trolled women's Facebook pages searching for clues that allowed him to take over their email accounts was sentenced Friday to more than four years in state prison.
Governor Jerry Brown has signed a landmark bill adding lessons about gay history to social studies classes in California's public schools.
Mudslinging isn't all that uncommon in politics, but what about name-calling? That's the latest development in California's budget stalemate.
A Northern California woman accused of killing her baby in a microwave oven was arraigned Thursday on murder charges that could lead to the death penalty if she is convicted.
Police arrested a Northern California mother Tuesday on a murder charge, saying they believed she had burned her six-week-old baby to death in a microwave oven.
Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday were preparing two budgets — one with an extension of expiring tax increases and one without — as a Wednesday legislative deadline loomed.
Gov. Jerry Brown called on the Legislature Monday to rise above partisan differences and resist pressure from talk shows, bloggers and anti-tax advocates to pass a California budget.
The state Senate has rejected extending recent tax hikes for another year to help close California's $9.6 billion budget deficit but approved a bill that would allow local communities to more easily go to the voters for tax increases.
A state Senate committee has killed a bill that would have prohibited lawmakers from receiving free spa treatments, sports tickets and rounds of golf.
Officials say tornadoes that touched down in a rural area of Northern California destroyed hundreds of acres of almond orchards.
The National Weather Service along with local police agencies reported several tornadoes on Wednesday evening, but there was no immediate word of any significant damage or injuries.
Supervisors in El Dorado county voted Tuesday to replace 36 gravestones that bear the N-word, giving the green light to state, county and community officials to design an alternative.
