Between the state budget and other deals, lawmakers have made big changes to the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA.

Customers will pay slightly more for legal weed after California’s excise tax is raised. Some lawmakers want to reduce it as the industry struggles with slumping sales.

As part of a legal settlement regarding college athletes, a school will be able to pay players up to a combined $20.5 million a year.

Three former college football players in the California Legislature think youth leagues should allow padded helmet add-ons like NFL players wear.

Gavin Newsom could learn, as Jerry Brown did earlier in his career, that political stunts as governor can haunt a presidential bid.

Major changes include an exemption for high-tech industrial plants and other projects. The move, fast-tracked under pressure ...

No immediate hike in gas prices will occur. But Democrats and Republicans in the Legislature fear the effects of the ...

California needs $85 billion for public employees' retirement health care. Gov. Newsom's new labor deals pause spending to pre-fund that expense.

What happened to three men who were arrested in California and deported? Also: Marines at the border and the economic toll of the raids.

As the Trump administration cracks down on undocumented immigrants deep in the country, it's sending Marines and soldiers to ...

Their families won’t know what happened to them. They’ll be shackled, whisked away to another state, forced to subsist for ...

A budget trailer bill would "pause" for six years local governments' ability to set higher environmental standards for construction projects.