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Cities and counties could dramatically restrict the information they release to the public without explanation under a bill approved by the state Legislature and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown as part of the state budget package.

A federal judge in San Francisco on Monday is scheduled to consider whether an airborne fungus that occurs naturally in the San Joaquin Valley presents enough of a public health danger that thousands of state prison inmates should be moved to other locations.

Paula Cooper, once a teen on Indiana's death row, was released from prison on Monday, June 17. She spent 27 years behind bars for stabbing a 78-year-old Bible teacher Ruth Pelke in the stomach and chest 33 times.

California's monthly report on jobs and unemployment includes a county-by-county breakdown, providing graphic evidence of the state's bifurcated recovery from the worst recession since the Great Depression.

The murder trial of Joseph Naso, charged with the decades-old slayings of four women in Northern California, is set to get under way.

Q I laughed when I saw this sticker on a car: "When I go, I want to go peacefully in my sleep, just like my grandfather.

Utlimate Poker, a site that went live in April, is for Nevada residents only. California needs to proceed carefully in crafting online gambling allowances and protocols that would apply here.

COMMERCE – Robert Fierro, a preschool teacher and a city council member in this industrial town of fewer than 13,000 residents, didn't fully fathom the tidal forces and the powerful family he was taking on in 2008.

A California man accused of selling approximately 74 juvenile nurse sharks over the Internet faces charges in South Florida reported KeysNews on June 15. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami reported that Dean Trinh, of Milpitas, Calif., has been arrested and made his initial court appearance in California.

If the range of possible Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage this month requires a scorecard, the potential confusion arising from those decisions may demand a manual.

As the state Senate finished voting Saturday on a bill to extend a tax on managed care plans, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg told reporters at the back of the room, " That is what's called a supermajority."

Let's say you were buried under an avalanche of debt for years and could only make the minimum payments on your credit card bills.

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The Legislature passed a major piece of the federal Affordable Care Act on Saturday, opting to expand Medicaid to 1.4 million low-income Californians, as it rushed to meet its deadline to complete a state budget for the coming fiscal year.

Legislation tucked into the state budget bill would "eviscerate" the public's ability to track tax dollars and hold local officials accountable, open government advocates charged Friday.

Inhaling motor vehicle emissions may transform good, protective cholesterol into bad, artery-clogging cholesterol that increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, says a new study by researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California-Los Angeles.

More BBQ: Say you've devoted every minute of the last two years to turning your barbecue dream into a smokin' success.

Same-sex couples across the country could benefit at tax time should the U.S. Supreme Court allow the federal government to recognize their marriages and other legal unions.

The Legislature passed California's massive state spending plan Friday amid sharp divisions over whether the compromise struck by Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown will further the state's recovery or eventually return it to the multibillion-dollar deficits common during the recession.

California's insurance commissioner wants to exclude Anthem Blue Cross from the state's new health exchange for small businesses, saying it's made excessive rate hikes.