New California law limits medical cost recoveries from ride-hailing crashes, imposes new driver background check rules ...

Billionaires want to build a new city on California farmland. They're lobbying to skip environmental reviews and using a shipbuilder as political leverage.

Bills moving through the California Legislature this year address state-funded sober housing, parked RVs and homelessness prevention.

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State leaders struck a deal with Uber and trial lawyers to keep rivaling measures off the November ballot, but no deal yet on ...

A million-square-foot data center became a lighting rod in this rural county. Residents and local leaders are fighting back.

California gave an old mobile home program a new name, a new focus and millions more to spend. The results are starting to come in.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom said the Trump administration appears to be investigating him and his wife. The Democrat said agents ...

Lawmakers are holding up money the Newsom administration requested for a nationwide driver license database over concerns ...

A California city banned new data centers, underscoring a growing skepticism about the energy-hungry hubs that power ...

State officials have found they are using six high-risk AI-like systems. One year ago, they reported using zero.