California Government News

Premier Alison Redford announced Friday the government will open six new international offices in the next two years.

According to a top budget advisor for the California legislature, the financial picture in California is much better that what Governor Jerry Brown has suggested.

California was among three states in April that experienced the sharpest drops in unemployment, with its rate falling to 9 percent.

Tesoro will not have to sell any of the assets anti-trust regulators said, but California officials demanded the company upgrade the refinery it was buying.

The lawyer for a California heavy metal singer accused of trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife says the singer's mind has been ravaged by steroid use.

The California State Senate approved bill SB 126 Friday which renews the autism insurance mandate established by SB 946 through 2019.

A California doctor has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for bilking her patients out of more than $1 million by promising that an herbal supplement could cure late-stage cancer and other diseases.

Two bills are pending in the state Legislature that promote and expand the use of condoms by two very different groups of people - porn stars and prisoners - each based on programs that are already in place in Los Angeles.

The state's independent budget analyst says California will take in $3.2 billion more than Gov.

The House and Senate Agriculture Committees have laid the groundwork this week for reducing the size of the federal food stamp program, approving farm bills that would shrink the food aid and alter the way people qualify for it.

28, 2012, file photo shows a customer at a 7-Eleven convenience store with a Powerball ticket in Tampa, Fla.

Millions of Californians who contact the state's new health exchange to buy insurance will be given the opportunity to register to vote, too, a move that some Republicans fear could benefit Democrats.

Tree farmers in California, North Carolina and other states secured the industry-funded promotion program through one of many amendments to the farm bill that the House Agriculture Committee approved late Wednesday night.

After scrimping, borrowing and sacrificing for years to pay for college, graduating seniors are finally preparing to celebrate.

Kristin Lynch, Pacific region director for Food and Water Watch, said the Natural Resources Committee "sided with the people of California" when it voted to advance legislation that places a moratorium on fracking.

The three-decade fight for freedom by a Montana man convicted of the 1979 slaying of a teenage classmate appeared to slam shut this week, when the Montana Supreme Court ordered him back to prison and took away his... The three-decade fight for freedom by a Montana man convicted of the 1979 slaying of a teenage classmate entered what could be its ... (more)

"We continue to pursue policies that promote coordinated care, including changes to the ways Medicare pays physicians, implementation of health insurance exchanges and other changes to the healthcare marketplace.

Gov. Jerry Brown's latest budget proposes a $17 billion infusion for California's K-12 schools over the next four years, a dramatic turn-around after years of teacher layoffs and program cuts that were common during the recession.

When California passed it's land-mark Greenhouse Gas reduction laws in 2006, residents and businesses were assured that funds raised through the controversial "cap and trade" program would be invested in programs and projects that would further reduce emissions.

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