Surrounded by French dip sandwiches and iced teas, gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom grabbed a bite to eat in downtown Los Angeles on Friday and secured the endorsement from a former Democratic opponent amid the afternoon lunch rush.
Read moreA voter-approved ballot measure aimed at reducing California’s prison population and ending racial disparities in the war on drugs has produced most of the cost-saving, equity-focused results it promised, with some exceptions, according to a study published Thursday.
Read moreTwo former officers and their Bay Area police department on Thursday agreed to dismiss a lawsuit in which the officers accused the city of ordering them to falsify documents to reduce the city’s reported crime rate and not to document use of force.
Read moreAfter 20 years in state prison, a California woman convicted of scheming to kill her twin sister was granted parole last month by Governor Jerry Brown, much to the dismay of a local district attorney’s office that called the woman a “manipulative and dangerous individual.”
Read moreOver the last decade, hundreds of law enforcement employees have undergone investigation for abusing a police database that contains personal information about anyone with a California driver’s license – but until recently, these abuses have remained largely unreported.
Read moreBay Area toll users will pay $34 million to settle a dispute with a contractor accused of doing defective work on the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Read morePacific Gas & Electric said Thursday it expects to pay at least $2.5 billion to cover the cost of lawsuits and other issues stemming from wildfires that killed 44 and destroyed thousands of homes in Northern California last year.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday tossed a woman’s proposed class action lawsuit alleging that she was put in an Alameda County jail cell stained with feces, blood and used menstrual pads.
Read moreCalifornia’s net neutrality bill advanced despite objections from its author when another legislator’s amendments “gutted” it prior to a committee hearing.
Read moreIn an effort to transform California’s relationship to energy markets in the western region of the country, lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a bill that would merge California into a regional energy market.
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At the urging of families of Californians killed by law enforcement, lawmakers on Tuesday advanced reforms that would restrict the use of deadly force and make it easier for prosecutors to charge officers who abuse it.
Read moreFour new mountain lion kittens have been found by researchers studying the wild cats living in Southern California’s Santa Monica Mountains, wildlife officials announced in video posts Tuesday showing the blue-eyed babies meowing and one feisty one hissing and even taking a swipe at the person filming her.
Read moreBoosted by an infusion of Latino voters in Southern California and a new voting system in five counties, California’s primary turnout recorded a sharp increase this month.
Read moreA doctor who used his Beverly Hills radiology companies to fraudulently bill insurers for $22 million was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison on 39 felony fraud counts.
Read moreCalifornians will vote this November on whether to grant cities more power to enact rent control after petitioners garnered enough signatures across the state to put it on the general election ballot.
Read moreA federal judge indicated Monday that he will allow nationwide litigation to go forward accusing Wells Fargo Bank of forcing unneeded auto insurance on borrowers.
Read moreMore than a week after Election Day in California the campaign signs have come down in the city of Fullerton, where voters recalled their state representative over his support of a 12-cent-per-gallon gas tax. But across California the effort to repeal the tax itself is only beginning.
Read moreTwo California Democrats crafting “gold standards” in net neutrality laws said Monday they will amend and combine their bills before a vote this week in the Legislature.
Read moreCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown appointed Justice Peter J. Siggins, a Democrat and former staff member for the governor and California Department of Justice, to preside over Division Three of the state’s First District Court of Appeal Friday.
Read moreCalifornia officials bucked a recent court ruling Friday and offered reassurance to concerned coffee drinkers that their fix won’t give them cancer.
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