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A player in California has won a $1.765 billion Powerball jackpot, ending a long stretch without a winner of the top prize
October 11, 2023A player in California has won a $1.765 billion Powerball jackpot, ending a long stretch without a winner of the top prize
October 11, 2023California's newly appointed U.S. senator is facing a risky decision: whether or not to enter the 2024 race for her seat that already is crowded with candidates
October 11, 2023Two veteran Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were seriously hurt when a fire broke out inside a trailer serving as a mobile shooting range north of Los Angeles
October 10, 2023California is the world’s fifth-largest economy. Laws tested there often spread across the U.S. and around the world.
October 10, 2023Former baseball MVP Steve Garvey is joining the race to succeed the late California Sen. Dianne Feinstein
October 10, 2023A Minnesota horticulture teacher has set a world record in California for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds
October 09, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have made free condoms available to all public high school students
October 08, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill aimed at limiting the price of insulin
October 08, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill aimed at decriminalizing the possession and use of some hallucinogens, including psychedelic mushrooms
October 07, 2023Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have made California the first state in the nation to outlaw discrimination based on caste
October 07, 2023California will soon require big businesses to report a wide range of greenhouse gas emissions
October 07, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law to increase the amount of minimum sick days for workers from three days to five
October 04, 2023Former union leader and Democratic insider Laphonza Butler has been sworn in as the newest member of the U.S. Senate, replacing California Sen. Dianne Feinstein after her death and becoming only the third Black female senator in history
October 03, 2023When California Gov. Gavin Newsom needed to fill the U.S. Senate seat of his late mentor Dianne Feinstein, he could have turned to a big-city mayor, a member of Congress or a powerful legislator
October 02, 2023An alternative mental health court program designed to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia into housing and medical care is starting in San Francisco and six other California counties
October 02, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom has named Democratic strategist and Kamala Harris 2020 presidential campaign adviser Laphonza Butler to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by Sen. Dianne Feinstein's death
October 02, 2023In a remote, dry patch of California farm country, a battle is raging over carrots
October 01, 2023California won’t be giving unemployment checks to workers on strike
October 01, 2023A military jet carrying the body of California U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has landed in her hometown of San Francisco
October 01, 2023The nation's LGBTQ+ leaders are lauding the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein as a longtime friend who learned and evolved to become an ally
September 30, 2023U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s death creates a vacancy in the Senate at a time when Democrats hold the slimmest majority in the chamber
September 29, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing pressure to appoint a replacement for the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein
September 29, 2023In an occasionally dark and profane speech, Donald Trump on Friday sought to win over Republicans in California by complaining that rich people in Beverly Hills smell bad because they’re denied water, reiterating lies about widespread election fraud and calling on police to shoot people robbing stores
September 29, 2023Tributes are pouring in for Dianne Feinstein, the trailblazing California senator, who has died at 90
September 29, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour
September 28, 2023ExxonMobil has lost a court bid to truck millions of gallons of crude oil through central California — a crucial part of its efforts to restart offshore oil wells that were shut in 2015 after a pipeline leak caused the worst coastal spill in 25 years
September 27, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law protecting doctors and pharmacists who mail abortion pills to patients in other states
September 27, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law that will raise taxes on guns and ammunition
September 26, 2023Donald Trump lost heavily Democratic California by over 5 million votes in the 2020 election
September 26, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed several bills aimed at bolstering the state’s protections for LGBTQ+ people
September 24, 2023California's Democratic governor has vetoed a bill that would have required human drivers to be on board self-driving trucks
September 23, 2023California's insurance commissioner says he will write new rules for insurers in the nation's most populous state
September 22, 2023A United Methodist Church court has acquitted a California bishop of all charges in the first trial of one of the church’s bishops in nearly a century
September 22, 2023A new plan from California's insurance commissioner aims to keep the nation's top insurers from leaving the wildfire-prone state
September 21, 2023Alarmingly, about half the people exposed to wildfires in Washington and Oregon were those least able to afford to protect their homes, evacuate safely and recover.
September 20, 2023The man charged with murder in the ambush killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity
September 20, 2023More than 200 people rallied outside San Francisco's City Hall to urge supervisors to act on reparations for Black residents
September 19, 2023Sacramento’s top prosecutor is suing the city’s leaders over failure to cleanup homeless encampments, escalating a monthslong dispute with leaders in California’s capital city
September 19, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he plans to sign into law a pair of climate-focused bills intended to force major corporations to be more transparent about greenhouse gas emissions and the financial risks stemming from global warming
September 17, 2023Authorities are asking for the public’s help and offering a $250,000 reward as investigators search for the assailant who shot and killed a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy as he sat in his patrol car at an intersection
September 17, 2023The state of California has filed a lawsuit against some of the world's largest oil and gas companies, claiming they deceived the public about the risks of fossil fuels blamed for climate change-related storms and wildfires that caused billions of dollars in damage
September 16, 2023California lawmakers have finished their work for 2023
September 15, 2023Search giant Google has agreed to a $93 million settlement with the state of California over its location-privacy practices
September 14, 2023California has some of the strongest digital privacy laws in the U.S. and is on the verge of handing consumers a major new tool to combat the sale and secret use of personal information they may never have agreed to share
September 14, 2023Environmental groups are calling on federal regulators to immediately shut down one of two reactors at California’s last nuclear power plant
September 14, 2023Lawmakers in California's state Assembly have voted to put a measure before voters next March that would overhaul the way counties are funding mental and behavioral health programs
September 12, 2023Forecasters warned of ‘potentially historic rainfall’ and ‘dangerous to locally catastrophic flooding.’ A hurricane scientist explains what El Niño, a heat dome and mountains have to do with the risk.
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