Assemblymember Bill Essayli is among several members of the state’s marginalized GOP given new prominence by the president.

California Democrat assembly member Rick Chavez Zbur compared a bill to keep trans athletes out of girls sports to Nazi Germany and the holocaust.

A baby rattlesnake bit a man in the California foothills, firefighters reported. An ambulance took the man to a hospital, the Calaveras Consolidated Fire Protection District said in a Monday, March 31, news release. He was bitten in the leg on Wimer Road near Highway 26, firefighters said. “Watch your step,” firefighters warned.

Insurers say a neighborhood like the one built in Southern California protects residents from fire — and perhaps other close by properties as well.

A Eureka woman who nearly bled to death while miscarrying twins last year is suing the hospital chain that she claims refused her life-saving abortion care, building on a previous suit by California's attorney general.

The body of missing Los Angeles firefighter Connor J. Lees was recovered off the coast of Long Beach, California, months after his disappearance.

Zibby Publishing is not the only press with that approach. Northern California-based author Karen Nelson published her first novel, “The Sunken Town,” with Sibylline Press in 2023.

California and other states are suing the Trump administration over plans to cut billions of dollars in grants designed to make states more resilient to infectious disease.

California lawmakers rejected two bills aimed at keeping trans kids and teens off sports teams consistent with their gender identity.

Firefighters said they stopped the wildfire's forward spread, but there was still the threat of flareups on Tuesday.