Amid rising safety concerns for fireworks, cities like Napa have turned to drone lights to sustain July Fourth community traditions.

California police are making arrests after killings more often, a trend that could be contributing to the state's record-low homicide rate.

California lawmakers are considering a bill that would give the coastal commission greater oversight over new owners trying ...

Researchers say about 800 plants are involved in plastics or plastics-chemicals in California. Many are around Los Angeles and are expanding.

California voters will decide on 14 statewide policy proposals come November, from the controversial billionaire tax to an ...

A new California law gives just more flexibility to keep defendants in jail rather than releasing them to community-based mental health treatment programs.

The court’s decision allows – but doesn’t require – states to bar transgender student athletes from playing on girls’ and ...

The state budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed includes $55 million for the DMV to build a data-sharing system to comply with ...

California librarians were stunned when a last-minute budget change stripped K-12 schools of a trove of research materials, potentially leaving thousands of students without resources to do reports, ...

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

A bill that would have charged some people high fees to secure records from California public agencies was scaled back.