Take, for instance, the California State Assembly's recent heated debate on the sex trafficking of children. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Opinion: Sean 'Diddy' Combs ...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Assembly on Thursday approved harsher penalties for soliciting sex from 16- and 17-year-olds, with an exception for cases where there is an age ...

May 13, 2025 State Farm will be allowed to temporarily charge an extra 17 percent for homeowners’ insurance policies in California, after the state gave the company permission, in the wake of ...

California’s top insurance regulator said Tuesday that State Farm can soon start raising premiums by 17% for all of its home insurance customers in the state to help the insurer rebuild its ...

Valencia Simpson (left) and Asiata Adekunle Murtala (right) rally with more than 55,000 members of SEIU Local 721 on strike on April 29, 2025, in Los Angeles, California ... most corporate leaders and ...

California's state bar on Monday sued the vendor that administered its disastrous February 2025 bar exam, accusing the testing company of misleading agency leaders about its technical and ...

The State Bar of California is suing the vendor that administered its February bar exam, a disastrous rollout of a new testing platform that shook confidence in the organization’s leadership ...

The California State Assembly’s Utilities and Energy Committee has voted 10-4 to pass an amended version of Assembly Bill 942, which seeks to cut compensation rates for existing rooftop solar ...

A new state assembly bill, dubbed the "California Safe Homes Act," could provide grant money to low-to-moderate income property owners to make fire-safe improvements to their homes. "No one's ...

has been sailing through the State Assembly. It passed the Assembly's Natural Resources Committee unanimously last month. It takes an average of four years to build housing in California ...