California lawmakers may require four hours of training to buy a gun. And you’d better have ammo for the range ...

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La administración Trump suspendió 1,100 millones de dólares en fondos de Medicaid de California por denuncias de fraude, lo que amenaza la atención domiciliaria de 900,000 personas mayores y personas ...

Fast food workers urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint a chairperson to California’s fast food council, which hasn’t met in over a year.

A new carbon market proposal could send billions in free permits to industry while cutting money for California programs.

A new report warns that data center buildout is encroaching on California’s most vulnerable, water-stressed communities. The problem is, no one’s saying how much water they use ...

From a public wildfire authority to a state backstop, California insurance commissioner candidates propose greater state ...

Turning Point USA chapters are growing on California campuses after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, as tensions rise both in and out of the classroom.

A law advancing in the California Legislature algorithmic surveillance pricing illegal. Three other states just passed such bans.

Californians accused of crimes can receive mental health treatment rather than prison time. Lawmakers are revamping the rules ...

California leaders approved the hospital funding within days even as they questioned the narrow criteria, the amount and the number of hospitals that would qualify. The speed stunned some hospitals ...