SACRAMENTO, Calif — New year, new laws. Hundreds of laws were passed by California Governor Gavin Newsom. By 2025, a number of those laws are set to go into effect — along with some from years ...

Cannabis cafes and expanded outdoor drinking? An end to a banking fee? More protections for your credit score if you face medical debt? These are among the roughly 1,000 new laws hitting California ...

Among the few state programs that actually saw their budget grow? Public colleges and universities, though the University of California and California State University are slated to see those 8% cuts ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Remnants of a bathroom that fell off the wharf are visible at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River in Santa ...

on Dec. 23, 2024. Daniel Dreifuss/AFP via Getty Images Marina police officers, firefighters, U.S. Coast Guard and the California Highway Patrol launched an extensive search for the man using boats ...

By Amy Qin and Kate Selig The towering waves that have hammered California’s coast this week have been unusually destructive, killing at least one person and prompting warnings by officials to ...

California's population has bounced back to levels the Golden State reached before the pandemic. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) ...

My children exist in part because of the University of California system. It was Gov. Pat Brown’s Master Plan for Higher Education, designed to guarantee every high school graduate in the state ...

Gavin Newsom are set to take effect in the new year. The 2025 slate of new California laws includes protections for actors in Hollywood against artificial intelligence, new parking restrictions ...

California’s new minimum-wage law hadn’t even gone into effect before it was declared a disaster. Business groups and Republican politicians have argued for decades that minimum-wage increases ...

The California exodus that’s been declared over and over again isn’t real, according to new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau published this week. The Golden State’s population grew by 0.6 ...

California's population surged in 2024, growing by almost a quarter of a million residents. From 2023 to 2024, the number of residents increased by 233,000 people, reaching 39.4 million in July ...