The nonpartisan legislative analyst says California is facing a much smaller deficit of $1.9 billion through the end of the next fiscal year and could even see surpluses over the next few years.
Gov. Jerry Brown is calling on the University of California to contain costs and rethink how it does business even though voters approved new taxes to fund schools and colleges.
The board overseeing California's efforts to establish an insurance marketplace to provide affordable health care is considering adopting its formal operational blueprint.
Authorities say the toxic mushrooms that killed two residents of a California senior care facility and sickened four others came from the home's backyard.
Experts say a bullet train linking Northern and Southern California will be an incredible engineering feat because the line must cross two mountain ranges and a half-dozen earthquake faults.
A strike at a supermarket chain with stores in Northern California and Nevada is over after workers and the company reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.
The largest hospice program in San Diego County may lay off hundreds of employees to cope with financial problems because it may have violated Medicare regulations.
Chevron says it does not plan to increase production at its fire-damaged Richmond refinery after repairs are made, allowing the company to forego requirements to install the newest clean air technologies.
Veterans plan to resurrect a war memorial cross on a rocky outcropping in the Mojave Desert on Veteran's Day that was part of a 13-year legal battle over the separation of church and state.
