Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law expanding privacy protections to people who work with immigrants. Republicans characterized it as a threat to the First Amendment.

Democratic lawmakers are advancing a bill to block ICE agents from using gloves that can deliver electric shocks or even to let law enforcement buy them in California ...

California's budget has become opaque, and the plan itself is a hodgepodge of phantom revenues, accounting gimmicks and off-the-books loans.

Polls show voters are turning sharply against data centers and several bills to regulate the facilities are advancing in the California Legislature. Utilities and tech companies, meanwhile, are ...

Legislators struck a last-minute deal that keeps survivors' right to sue over child sex abuse intact but raises the evidence ...

Prop. 47 led to an estimated 7,000 more unsheltered homeless Californians between 2015 and 2019, according to a new PPIC ...

Grace Coleman caused a terrible crime and realized she needed help to rebuild herself. She's finding it in a California prison ...

UCLA’s new major combines classical humanities with technical know-how to examine a digitized and increasingly AI-enhanced world.

An LA-area Democrat wants California to partner with drug manufacturers to make weight loss drugs cheaper — drawing on her own experience paying out of pocket.

The governor will appoint new state education leadership. But three bills to hold the state more accountable just died in the state senate.

Years after California reduced vehicle license fees and promised to make cities and counties whole, a glitch in the payment system may cause San Mateo County to lose $220 million a year.

The proposal would expedite the environmental review of a Newsom appointee’s mixed-use project in Santa Monica, despite ...