In heavily Democratic California, one prominent Republican U.S. House member is considering an audacious maneuver — moving to Texas to run for Congress.

Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat who served as a House manager in President Donald Trump’s 2021 impeachment trial, has launched his bid for California governor.

Billionaire businessman and activist Tom Steyer is running for California governor as a Democrat.

The Justice Department has sued to block new congressional district boundaries approved by California voters, joining a legal battle that could determine which party wins control of the U.S. House in 2026.

OpenAI said it has reorganized its ownership structure and converted its business into a public benefit corporation.

The Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections following requests from their state Republican parties.

Gov. Gavin Newsom says California will begin selling affordable insulin under its own label on Jan. 1, nearly three years after he first announced a partnership to sell state-branded generic drugs at lower prices.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill to prevent the state’s plan that provides insurance to homeowners who can’t get private coverage from running out of money.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill extending the state's cap-and-trade program through 2045.

The California Legislature has voted to extend the state's cap-and-trade program.

California voters will decide in a November special election whether to approve a redrawn congressional map designed to help Democrats win five more U.S. House seats next year.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for a special election on Nov. 4 to introduce new U.S. House maps.

A federal appeals court says a California law requiring background checks to buy bullets is unconstitutional.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a budget that pares back a number of progressive priorities to close a $12 billion deficit.

The California Senate has introduced a landmark resolution to have the state examine its crude imports from the Amazon, following a visit this week by Indigenous leaders from Ecuador who urged lawmakers to help stop oil expansion in their territories.

California's top insurance regulator is launching a probe into State Farm over its handling of claims from Los Angeles-area wildfires that broke out in January.

The University of California has announced that James B.

Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles accuse the major home insurers of colluding to limit coverage in high-risk areas across California.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation to provide $2.8 billion to close the budget hole in the state's Medicaid program.

Former Democratic U.S. House member Katie Porter is entering the crowded 2026 contest for California governor.

The Trump administration is investigating delays and cost overruns in California’s high-speed rail project.

California’s plan that provides insurance to homeowners who can’t get private coverage needs $1 billion more to pay out claims related to the Los Angeles wildfires.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed laws to help safeguard the state's progressive policies from challenges by Republican President Donald Trump's administration.

Some U.S. House Republicans in California are breaking with Speaker Mike Johnson over his suggestion that federal disaster aid be coupled with as-yet unspecified conditions on the wildfire-ravaged state.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a $322 billion budget without a deficit.

A California farm has expanded a recall of raw milk sold in stores and has halted production.

Control of the U.S. House rests on just over a dozen races where winners have not yet been determined.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law aimed at preventing gas prices from spiking at the pump.

Florida reported almost full vote results on Election Day in 2020.

Ten years ago, 3.7 million Californians voted for a landmark measure that made many nonviolent crimes misdemeanors instead of felonies.

A proposal to phase out large-scale confined animal farms will be put before voters in a Northern California county.

California’s governor has vetoed a bill that would have required all new cars to beep at drivers when they speed.

“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The state of California is partnering with tech giant Nvidia to help train California students, college faculty, developers and data scientists in artificial intelligence.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state leaders have dropped a plan to put a crime-focused measure on the ballot a day after announcing it.

California lawmakers have advanced a bill that would regulate powerful artificial intelligence systems.

The California Legislature has approved bills that would amend a 20-year-old law allowing workers to sue their bosses over labor violations.

Democrats in California have agreed to delay a minimum wage increase for about 426,000 health care workers to help balance the budget.

The California Supreme Court has removed a measure from the state’s November ballot that would have made it harder to raise taxes.

A federal appeals court has upheld California’s ban on gun shows at county fairs and other public properties, deciding the laws do not violate the rights of firearm sellers or buyers.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday the state will make $3.3 billion available by July for counties and private developers to start building more behavior health treatment centers.

California will open its first new state park in a decade this summer.

California voters have approved a measure that Gov. Gavin Newson says he needs to tackle the state’s homelessness crisis.

A California lawmaker is trying to get the state Legislature to rethink policymaking by creating a committee to study how to make people happier.

Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia seemed just as surprised as fight fans when it was determined that they would have their championship boxing match in New York.

California cities and counties still don’t know how much they’ll have to pay for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pandemic program to house homeless people in hotel rooms.

California could soon legalize psychedelic therapy under a bipartisan bill being introduced Tuesday.

A trio of prominent California Democrats is dueling with Republican former baseball star Steve Garvey for the U.S. Senate seat once held by the late Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

A California judge has ruled that the state does not have permission to borrow billions of dollars for a water project.

A new California law that bans people from carrying firearms in most public places has once again been blocked from taking effect as a court challenge continues.

Protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war have disrupted the first day of California's legislative session.

Almost every U.S. state has cut taxes in some way in the past three years.

A California law that bans people from carrying firearms in most public places is taking effect on New Year’s Day, even as a court case continues to challenge it.

California will soon become one of the first states to provide free health care to all low-income immigrants living in the state illegally.

A Pacific storm has pounded parts of Southern California with heavy rain and street flooding, adding to hassles as holiday travel gets underway.

A federal judge has blocked a California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and deprives people of their ability to defend themselves and their loved ones.

California is facing a $68 billion budget deficit.

Panda lovers in America have received a much-needed injection of hope as Chinese President Xi Jinping says his government is “ready to continue” lending the black and white icons to American zoos.

The first lesbian leader of the California Senate is thinking about trying to make history again — with a run for the governor's office.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom often touts California's leadership on the national stage.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law to raise the minimum wage for health care workers.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed two major pieces of legislation to transform the state’s mental health system and to address the state’s worsening homelessness crisis.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill aimed at limiting the price of insulin.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill aimed at decriminalizing the possession and use of some hallucinogens, including psychedelic mushrooms.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have made California the first state in the nation to outlaw discrimination based on caste.

California will soon require big businesses to report a wide range of greenhouse gas emissions.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has named Democratic strategist and Kamala Harris 2020 presidential campaign adviser Laphonza Butler to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by Sen. Dianne Feinstein's death.

Lawmakers in California's state Assembly have voted to put a measure before voters next March that would overhaul the way counties are funding mental and behavioral health programs.

Some of the nation's largest truck makers have pledged to not sell new gas-powered vehicles in California by the middle of the next decade.

Walmart will pay half a million dollars in civil penalties to the state of California over allegations that it was selling and allowing third-party vendors to sell brass knuckles on its website.

The Supreme Court says it won’t get involved in a dispute over a California animal cruelty law that bars foie gras from being sold in the state.

California’s first-in-the-nation Black reparations task force is nearing the end of its historic work with a hefty list of recommendations for lawmakers to consider turning into action.

California's budget deficit is now nearly $32 billion.

The Supreme Court has backed a California animal cruelty law that requires more space for breeding pigs.

California air regulators approved a rule to stop selling new big rigs and buses that run on diesel starting in 2036.

The California Air Resources Board approved Thursday a first-in-the nation rule to cut emissions from diesel-powered trains.

A Republican attorney and former congressional candidate has entered California's 2024 race for the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Dianne Feinstein.

The leader of California’s reparations task force said it won't take a stance on how much the state should compensate individual Black residents.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants state regulators to decide whether to impose the nation's first penalty on oil companies for price gouging.

A Northern California agricultural community famous for its strawberry crop has been forced to evacuate after the Pajaro River’s levee was breached by flooding from a new atmospheric river that pummeled the state.

California lawmakers are going to try to officially repeal a 15-year-old voter initiative meant to ban same-sex marriage in the state.

The IRS says most relief checks issued by states last year won't be subject to federal taxes, providing late guidance as taxpayers have begun filing returns.

Southern California's most popular puma gained fame as P-22 and cast a spotlight on the troubled population of California’s endangered mountain lions and their decreasing genetic diversity.

President Joe Biden has hosted the Golden State Warriors, who won the 2022 NBA championship, at the White House.

Storm-ravaged California is scrambling to clean up and repair widespread damage.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state will have a $22.5 billion budget deficit.

The California Air Resources Board has voted to approve an ambitious plan to achieve carbon neutrality in the state by 2045.

California utility regulators have approved major changes to the state's booming rooftop solar industry.

California could become the first state to fine big oil companies for making too much money.

California regulators have proposed changes to the state's robust residential solar market aimed at encouraging more at-home battery systems that store power for use at night.

The effort to legalize sports betting in California ran headlong into a typical challenge for competing ballot measures as they were battered by negative advertising that doomed both to spectacular failure in the most expensive ballot race in U.S. history.

Californians are voting now through Election Day on a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to abortion and contraception.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will call a special session of the state Legislature to pass a new tax on oil companies.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called on state regulators to relax rules on oil refineries in an effort to lower soaring fuel prices.

A campaign that could bring legalized sports betting to California has become the most expensive ballot-initiative fight in U.S. history.

California's chance of power outages will grow in the coming days as the state prepares to enter the most brutal stretch yet of an ongoing heatwave.

Tougher clean energy goals and a ban on new oil and gas wells near homes and schools are among the climate wins for California Democrats in the final days of the legislative session.

California lawmakers have voted to make vasectomies cheaper for men.

Discounted prices, car-share programs and more public chargers are among the ways California will try to make electric cars easier to buy and drive.

California has set itself on a path to end the era of gas-powered cars in the state.