A new California Supreme Court ruling upholds limits on how many vacation hours government workers can cash out and apply ...

For the fourth year in a row, California lawmakers are weighing whether to give violent criminals the legal right to cite abuse in their legal defense.

We wouldn’t let anyone else live in a place that doesn’t have a smoke detector," one prison safety expert said about California falling behind on replacing its fire alarm systems.

In a surprising role reversal, at least in image, the traditionally plodding L.A. County government looks more urgent and creative than L.A. City Hall.

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California is suing the Trump administration over conditions on emergency grants that tie funding to the president's ...

Environmental groups say Rhys Williams' new job at a lobbying firm undermines his impartiality on California's waste oversight board ...

California needs to ramp up reforestation to keep pace with wildfires — instead, funding and staff keep shrinking.

The state ended a $1 billion school HVAC program two years early, leaving thousands of districts' broken systems unrepaired.

With world-renowned cultural campuses, San Diego is one of the country’s top 100 arts communities, but can it hold its position amid shrinking arts investment and rising costs?

Gov. Gavin Newsom opposes the California wealth tax measure and supports one nationally. But there’s another tax-the-rich measure on the state ballot.

Grizzly bears went extinct in California, but that hasn’t stopped a fight over whether the state should study bringing them back ...