San Francisco officials have approved a plan that would greatly complicate future efforts to drain a city-owned flooded gorge in Yosemite National Park that has been called a twin of breathtaking Yosemite Valley.
Sacramento County's prosecutor has rejected a report from the state attorney general on $20 million hidden by state parks officials and says she will not consider pressing charges against anyone.
California's top prosecutor is suing clothing manufacturers based in India and China for allegedly using pirated software, giving them an unfair advantage over American companies.
A chemistry researcher at the University of California, Davis who was injured in an explosion at his campus apartment last week faces 10 charges of possessing firearms and explosives.
Readers of Lance Armstrong's two books detailing his cycling accomplishments are suing the disgraced athlete and his publishers because of his denials of drug use.
Cheering a California rebound, Gov. Jerry Brown says voter-approved tax increases have put the state on sound financial footing but warns lawmakers that they must be tight-fisted with the government purse strings.
Officials say a 15-year-old student has been arrested at a high school east of Los Angeles for carrying ammunition on school grounds, and a handgun of the same caliber was later found at his home.
The American Civil Liberties Union of California is demanding that state education officials order 251 school districts to provide English language instruction to more than 20,000 non-English speaking school children.
