The Latest Breaking News from California

Human rights groups have urged video-conferencing company Zoom to scrap research on integrating emotion recognition tools into its products, saying the technology can infringe users' privacy and perpetuate discrimination. Technology publication Protocol reported last month that California-based Zoom was looking into building such tools, which could use artificial intelligence (AI)…

After more than a decade of debate, the coastal commission is set to vote on the proposed $1.4bn project near Los Angeles

OAKLAND, Calif. — Dr. Andrew Herring has a clear goal walking into every appointment with patients seeking medication to treat an opioid use disorder: persuade them to get an injection of extended-release buprenorphine.

The Irish community in the US have been posting online, in the hopes that someone with information will come forward

In a state where legislators can boast of membership in the Oath Keepers, the fringe has become mainstream

The five-year pilot program is yet to be signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom.

When banks combine these days, community groups push them to step up their investments in low- to moderate-income neighborhoods and communities of color.

SAN FRANCISCO — Coronavirus conditions are likely to worsen, with case rates continuing to rise and hospitalizations starting to increase, according to the top health official in the San Francisco Bay Area's most populous county.

LOS ANGELES — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has crafted a sophisticated surveillance dragnet designed to spy on most people living in the United States, without the need for warrants and many times circumventing state privacy laws, such as those in California, according to a two-year investigation released Tuesday by the…