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 ...

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Thursday morning, they headed to Cuesta Park in San Luis Obispo for a festive game of kickball while wearing their inflatables. "[It's] a little bit crazy, a lot of chaos," explained Devon Beck.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s constant reminders that California’s economy ”leads the nation” as well as being a model for social justice are delusional. To be sure, California has a huge GDP ...

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 ...

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 ...

After several years of decline, California’s population grew by almost a quarter of a million residents in 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, a rebound that brings the Golden State ...

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

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 ...