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 ...