Amid a push by local leaders to conserve farmlands and open spaces in the Bay Area from future development, state senator David Cortese has introduced a bill that would shore up funding to preserve ...

The California Legislative Black Caucus unveils a 2025 bill package aiming to address generational harms and racial ...

Adrian Gonzalez kidnapped, raped and killed an 8-year-old girl in 2015. He has remained in the juvenile justice system since ...

A new bill introduced by freshman state Senator Aisha Wahab aims to put restrictions on investor-owned utility companies, such as PG &E. One of those restrictions is prohibiting the shut-off of ...

California’s Senate Minority Leader said the bill came in response to County’s vote to restrict local resources for immigration enforcement.

For more than half a century, California’s “lemon” law was considered one of the best in the nation at giving consumers the ...

The drought may have ended in 2017, but now, even when it's raining, California's water supply has ... On Tuesday, McNerney introduced SB 31 to ease some regulations on the use of recycled water.

The California Legislative Black Caucus rolled out proposals to advance racial equity amid federal attacks on racial preference programs.

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. A new bill proposed in California (SB 243) would require AI companies to periodically remind kids that a chatbot is an AI and not human. The bill ...

Under California SB 1100, the state’s Fair Employment Housing Act (FEHA) has been amended to make it unlawful, unless limited conditions are met, for employers to require job applicants to have ...

Seismologists are closely monitoring California's fault lines as concerns grow about the possibility that the "Big One" could happen soon. The "Big One" refers to a massive earthquake that could ...