California News

SACRAMENTO >> Lawmakers return from their spring recess this week focusing on hundreds of bills that have to pass from one house to the other by the end of May, but the most contentious issues will come later.

Beginning in early 2011, state Sen. Leland Yee repeatedly solicited bribes to fund his San Francisco mayor and California secretary of state campaigns, according to the FBI agents who brought him down last month.

Nick Bertagna was the right man for the job at the walnut education booth at the California Nut Festival.

When you get past the political fuzz and buzz, the Capitol's quest for a new rainy-day fund to store excess state revenue is an admission that politicians have failed in the past and can't be trusted in the future.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti showed up in the Utah mountains in January, talking up L.A. at the Sundance Film Festival, and inviting TV and movie productions to come to Southern California.

The debate over mandatory GMO food labels continues. Critics of Initiative 522, which would require companies to label genetically modified food, say if food wasn't healthy it wouldn't be on the shelf.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says the death of 33-year-old Todd Bush was ruled a homicide following an autopsy by the Oklahoma medical examiner's office this week.

California clichs get on my nerves - cutting edge; dream factory; innovative business culture - so when the time came to visit family and friends in Los Angeles and San Francisco last month I was prepared to be annoyed.

The FBI says a man on its Most Wanted list suspected of bludgeoning his mother, wife and three sons to death with a hammer nearly 40 years ago has Southern California roots.

More Latino than white students in California have been offered admission to the state's premier public universities for the first time, officials said Friday, a milestone that reflects the diverse racial makeup of a state where Latino children represent a majority of students in public schools.

The flash of cameras light up the rhinestones on my vintage Studio 54 T-shirt as I skirt the edge of the red carpet at the Palm Springs Convention Center .

Though more details have emerged this week about the fatal truck-motorcoach crash in northern California, officials maintain that it could take months to determine the cause of the fiery collision.

In a minor bright spot after more than a year of drought, state and federal officials announced Friday that because of March storms, they will be able to deliver slightly more water to California farms and cities this year than expected a few months ago.

Drought-stricken California farmers and cities are set to get more water as state and federal officials ease water cutbacks due to recent rain and snow, officials announced on Friday.

Out-of-state donors, in particular, enabled Democrat Amanda Renteria to nearly match the recent fund raising of Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, since January.

As California's drought continues, despite some welcome rain, and rumors of further water restrictions keep swirling, thirsty green lawns are becoming less attractive to home owners, businesses and institutions alike.

Citing a large influx of customers in the final weeks, California officials announced Thursday that nearly 1.4 million people have enrolled in health coverage through its insurance exchange, capping an opening period that saw the state emerge as an example for the rest of the nation.

President Barack Obama embraced Lyndon B. Johnson's civil rights legacy Thursday in a speech that credited the former president with helping to open the doors to equality for countless Americans, including those who are LGBT.

Workplace safety officials fined a San Francisco Bay Area commuter rail line $210,000 on Thursday over the deaths of two of its workers on tracks.

Capping six months of open enrollment under the new federal health care law, more than 3 million Californians signed up for a private health insurance or Medi-Cal plan by final deadline Tuesday, state health exchange and Medi-Cal officials announced Thursday morning.