The Latest Breaking News from California

A flurry of news stories in recent days exposed the questionable appointment of California Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Alameda) as chair of a budget subcommittee that will recommend funding for the state Department of Justice, which is run by her spouse, Attorney General Rob Bonta. The right response would have been…

After every high-profile mass shooting, gun control advocates reflexively demand that we “just do something” about the problem. Invariably, that “something” means a very specific set of things, which can be summarized as a singular effort to impose California’s restrictive gun laws at the federal level.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California's most accomplished senator, became an anachronism. She practiced civility and compromised with the other side.

The head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that oversees the interstate transmission of natural gas, electricity and oil on Thursday would not say whether it will launch a formal investigation into soaring natural gas prices in California but did say the agency has assigned staff to examine whether any…

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The 66-year-old former farmworker is accused of killing seven people in back-to-back shootings in California last month.

In 2022, campaigns supporting and opposing the seven ballot measures that appeared on the general election ballot amassed $724.8 million in contributions. This is an average of $103.5 million per measure, which is the highest average for California ballot measures between 2016 and 2022.

As January’s drenching storms have given way to an unseasonably dry February, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking to waive environmental rules in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in an effort to store more water in reservoirs — a move that is drawing heated criticism from environmental advocates who say…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers will once again introduce legislation that could ban imposing forced labor on inmates. This effort to amend state’s Constitution was rejected last year when lawmakers failed to pass it through the Assembly.

LOS ANGELES — Some University of California faculty members are raising the alarm about a research center affiliated with UC Riverside that they say uses corporate funding for reports "attacking proposals to improve the lives of working Californians."

LOS ANGELES — More than half of Black Californians said there was a time in the last few years when they thought they would have received better health care if they had belonged to a different racial or ethnic group, according to a report released Thursday.