The Latest Breaking News from California

A California man who pleaded guilty to plotting to firebomb the state Democratic Party’s headquarters and other buildings in Northern California after the defeat of former President Donald Trump is scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge

Flag football is rising in popularity, especially among girls

Climate crisis has upped the ante in the state where progress has been hampered despite a considerable budget allocation

A California case in which police used DNA gathered from a woman who’d been raped to implicate her later in an unrelated crime is egregious on several levels. Not only is it a privacy invasion of Orwellian proportions to use DNA gathered from a victim to turn her into a…

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s public slugfests with the governors of Texas and Florida over immigration and abortion is generating important national attention. But perhaps even more importantly — assuming he has further political aspirations — his more aggressive demeanor is endearing him to influential Democratic insiders.

Extended solitary confinement in California prisons was supposed to have ended, for all practical purposes, after a 2015 legal settlement in a case brought by plaintiffs who had been held in isolation for 10 years or longer in the security housing unit at Pelican Bay State Prison, near Crescent City.

More than one-third of teachers who aren’t near retirement say they will probably or definitely quit their jobs in the next three years, a survey published this week by their union found.

Sirhan Sirhan, who assassinated presidential candidate Robert F

US senators eye narrow fixes to raise bar for election challenges