California News

Just weeks after California first lady Maria Shriver apologized for parking in a red zone, her husband appears to have violated the same law.The Web site TMZ.com on Monday posted photographs of Gov.

When Mac Taylor, the California Legislature's chief budget adviser, declared last week that the state budget enacted just four months ago is already billions of dollars upside down, no one in the Capitol should have been surprised.

Three percent of California voters favor some other gubernatorial candidate, and 14% are undecided.

At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana.

Read the polls and you'd think the end was near for this, America's largest state.

An oil boom is underway in the state's agricultural heartland, as evolving tastes and a trend toward healthy fare have transformed a profession as old as civilization: olive production for the extra virgin market.

In this May 8, 2007 file photo, Dr. Jay Chapman holds a human skull from Nepal that has been hand decorated with silver at his home in Napa, Calif.

State Treasurer Bill Lockyer has delayed plans for issuing bonds to pay for the expansion of death row at San Quentin State Prison.

A paralyzed University of California law student has passed the bar exam after a legal battle to take the test.

Demonstrators entered their third day of a building takeover at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday in protest of a tuition increase, an undertaking that a school spokesman called futile.

Authorities arrested a Sacramento fisherman Saturday in connection to shooting a sea lion in the head.

After dropping sharply last year, the number of Thanksgiving travelers is expected to partially rebound over the holiday weekend, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California.

Berry Gordy founded what would become Motown Records a half-century ago with an $800 loan.

California regulators have adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions, a move that will eventually ban power-hungry sets from the state's store shelves.

California Watch /New America Media, News report, Louis Freedberg and Hugo Cabrera, Posted: Nov 20, 2009 Editor's Note: This article is part of a new collaboration between New America Media and California Watch , a new nonprofit journalism project at the Center for Investigative Reporting.

A space shuttle is no tinker toy. But is it the most complex machine ever built? Curiosity about the complexity of the reusable spacecraft inspired one of the questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers' questions about the news.

Students barricaded themselves inside buildings on University of California campuses to protest a 32 percent increase in student fees and budget cuts that have led to slashed programs and lost jobs.

California is investigating whether 30 Southern California churches were bilked of tens of thousands of dollars by companies that leased computer equipment.

Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.

California tax officials say an interior designer's false disability claim was uncovered when he was spotted on a home improvement television show.