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California's Department of Motor Vehicles is wading into the complex question of how to regulate the use of cars that rely on computers - not people - to drive them.

An Alameda County jury on Monday convicted Byron Williams on four counts of attempted murder as well as multiple weapons charges, the Oakland Tribune reports .

When Jerry Brown signed legislation giving California's public employees collective bargaining rights during his first governorship, he – wittingly or otherwise – began a major political shift.

With less than a month left to sign up for private insurance under the federal health care law, California's enrollment numbers are closing in on the magic number of 1 million as 8,000 people sign up every day.

The magnitude 6.9 earthquake off the coast of Northern California on Sunday night was the largest on the West Coast since the 7.2 Baja California quake in 2010.

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The California city of Vallejo emerged from bankruptcy just over two years ago, but it is still struggling to pay its bills.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Pennsylvania school district that wants to prevent students from wearing "I Boobies!" bracelets to promote breast cancer awareness among young people.

Although there were no reports of injuries or damage, the quake was felt in San Francisco, which lies 250 miles from Ferndale.

Officials say a powerful magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck Sunday night off the coast of northern California, but there were no early signs of a tsunami.

How does classifying most consensual sex as rape help rape victims? As a lawyer who has handled rape and sexual harassment cases, I can't see how.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton is on the minds of Republicans at the nation's largest annual gathering of conservative activists.

In this photo taken Friday March 7, 2014, Eric Henry gases up his car in Sacramento, Calif.

California's greenhouse gas reduction law already has shaken up the state's industrial sector, costing it more than $1.5 billion in pollution permit fees.

A California lawmaker has introduced legislation to regulate the state's free-wheeling medical marijuana industry — the farmers that grow the drug, the hundreds of storefront shops that sell it and especially the doctors who write recommendations allowing people to use it.

In a year when California Democrats are worried about motivating their voters, Gov. Jerry Brown heard another unwelcome message Saturday: Some Democratic activists are bristling over his administration's policies on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

Despite urgent calls for water conservation amid one of California's worst droughts, more than 255,000 homeowners and businesses across the state can still use all the water they want without paying higher bills.

The career criminal whose participation in a notorious murder spurred California's so-called three strikes law has been arrested again.

California counties are confounding the state's court-ordered efforts to sharply reduce its inmate population by sending state prisons far more convicts than anticipated, including a record number of people with second felony convictions.