A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook parts of Southern California on Jan. 19, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck about 12 miles northeast of Indio at around 5:56 p.m. PT. It caused ...

The open all-party primary will be held on June 2. Alex LemonidesPolling data reporter The race for governor has become a wide-open contest, with term limits preventing Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, ...

Houses being built in Vacaville, California, in October. Some lawmakers are working on bills to speed up home construction in the state. Senate Bill 417, the Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California Gov. Gavin Newsom attends a Yes on Proposition 50 rally at the Los Angeles Convention Center in November. (Eric Thayer ...

Last June, California lawmakers passed yet another round of “groundbreaking reforms to build more housing [and] boost affordability,” as Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signing statement boasted. In October, ...

California will face a lower budget shortfall than in previous year in 2026 as the state is set to cut back undocumented immigrants’ access to health care amid dwindling fiscal support from the ...

Google has long been associated with Silicon Valley. After all, Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded their company in a garage in Menlo Park back in 1998. But now, the power duo is severing some of ...

The Billionaire Tax Act would impose a one-time tax of 5% on the total wealth of California tax residents whose net worth is $1 billion or more. The proposed wealth tax would apply to those who are ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Lawmakers in Sacramento continue to rally around “affordability” as a guiding theme this legislative session, but few issues under that umbrella have drawn more debate than ...

A federal appeals panel has ruled that a California law prohibiting open carry of firearms in heavily populated counties is unconstitutional. The ruling was issued Friday by two judges on a ...

HALL. NEW TONIGHT THE NINTH CIRCUIT HAS DEEMED CALIFORNIA’S OPEN CARRY BAN IN MOST COUNTIES UNCONSTITUTIONAL. THE RULING COMES AFTER A SISKIYOU COUNTY MAN CHALLENGED THE STATE’S OPEN CARRY ...

A federal appeals court dealt a major blow to California’s gun laws Friday, ruling the state’s open-carry ban in most populated areas violates the Second Amendment because it cannot be justified under ...