California Government News

A form of cancer killed the serial killer known as the Night Stalker who terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s, coroner's officials said Monday.

Summer is almost here - and in California that means it's the season to worry about rolling blackouts.

Cities and counties could dramatically restrict the information they release to the public without explanation under a bill approved by the state Legislature and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown as part of the state budget package.

A southern California lawyer is being held in lieu of $2 million bail on attempted murder charges in a domestic violence case, accused of shooting his wife at his home last week.

Opening statements are Monday in the trial of a 79-year-old man charged with the decades-old killing of four women in Northern California who had matching initials.

A federal judge on Monday is scheduled to consider whether an airborne fungus that occurs naturally in the San Joaquin Valley presents enough of a public health danger that thousands of vulnerable state prison inmates should be moved to other locations.

The ranks of 51 beauty queens from every U.S. state and the District of Columbia competing for the Miss USA crown in Las Vegas was cut to 15 as the show got under way Sunday.

A majority of California voters believe same-sex couples should be allowed to legally marry in the state, according to results from the latest USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences/Los Angeles Times Poll.

California approved a major part of the federal Affordable Care Act on Saturday by expanding Medicaid to another 1.4 million of the state's poor as the deadline loomed for the state budget.

Highlights of the budget the Legislature is sending to Gov. Jerry Brown for the fiscal year that begins July 1. - Projects the state will collect $97.1 billion in general fund revenue and adopts a $96.3 billion spending plan for the 2013-14-fiscal year starting July 1. It maintains a $1.1 billion reserve and pays down some of the debt accrued ... (more)

If there is anyplace the gang green can expect to get its way, it would surely be California.

A jury has awarded $55 million to a Southern California man who lost his legs because he claims a private security firm's guard failed to protect him from gang members who shot him at an apartment building.

A California man accused of selling approximately 74 juvenile nurse sharks over the Internet faces charges in South Florida reported KeysNews on June 15. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami reported that Dean Trinh, of Milpitas, Calif., has been arrested and made his initial court appearance in California.

The Legislature's Democratic leaders touted their passage of a state budget ahead of their constitutional deadline, but no one was happier about it than Assemblyman Roger Hernandez.

Let's say you were buried under an avalanche of debt for years and could only make the minimum payments on your credit card bills.

The Legislature passed a major piece of the federal Affordable Care Act on Saturday, opting to expand Medicaid to 1.4 million low-income Californians, as it rushed to meet its deadline to complete a state budget for the coming fiscal year.

A man wanted by the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office for absconding from the county during his trial was arrested in California on Friday.

The husband of a former Delta Air Lines employee who admitted using her security credentials to smuggle drug money has also pleaded guilty to his role in a meth trafficking ring that operated between California and Hawaii.

Will California lawmakers have to work this weekend? We'll find out by the end of business today: The deadline for passing a budget beckons, so if legislators don't ratify the latest budget accord today, they will have to do so Saturday before midnight.

Legislation tucked into the state budget bill would "eviscerate" the public's ability to track tax dollars and hold local officials accountable, open government advocates charged Friday.