RICHMOND, California — In mid-August, this Northern California city extracted a half-billion dollar payout from Chevron, one of the most powerful companies in the world. It didn’t require a ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law on Tuesday that aim to help actors and performers protect their digital replicas in audio and visual ...

"Most businesses in California are small businesses. They just don't have the ability to absorb those kinds of costs." And with layoffs following fast-food workers wage increase, Kabateck said it ...

MONTEREY, California, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Hundreds of California sea lions have taken over San Carlos Beach in Monterey, California, prompting local officials to close the area to people.

Several small, family-owned businesses in Whittier are reeling after their restaurants and shops went up in a fiery inferno last week, leaving them destroyed in an incident that authorities ...

This is now our playbook. Earthquakes — even relatively small ones — are huge news in California. There was a time when anything less than a magnitude 5.0 merited only a news brief and “Did ...

A tiny coastal town in Northern California is the perfect place for foodies and wine lovers, according to a new report. Travel + Leisure ranked Elk as the nation’s best small town for food and ...

California voters passed Proposition 47 a decade ago to reduce the state’s incarcerated population, after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the state to address overcrowding in its prisons.

California has long been lauded — and criticized — for its progressivism, but when it comes to marriage equality, the state has a rather complicated history. If passed this November ...

In 2022, Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature approved a $54.3 billion spending package called the “California Climate Commitment” but scaled it back to $44.6 billion this year. According to the ...