California’s excise tax on legal weed is increasing, despite efforts to keep it lower to help the struggling industry. Lawmakers left it out of the state budget they passed Monday.

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that studies have found that the prospect of getting caught deters crime. You think?

Residents of the Diablo Grande community in Central California have seemingly made a deal with the devil: they've voted to ...

The Education Code sets the maximum amount of bond debt — the capacity or “cap” — as a percentage of the assessed valuation of all properties within a district. For elementary and high school ...

The initiative is the latest effort by California lawmakers to move the needle on the federal policy of mass deportations.

New exemptions to a major environmental law "will unambiguously reduce the time frame" for development, experts say.

His 1980 presidential campaign put the Libertarian Party on the map in a year rich in libertarian cultural clout.

The latest statistics from California show that crime in nearly every major crime category was down last year, despite ...

For decades, the state’s landmark environmental law made it easy to block home construction. A new law changes that.

The landmark California environmental legislation that lawmakers have voted to walk back will allow for crucial ...

Planned Parenthood would lose federal Medicaid money under the Big Beautiful Bill passed by the U.S. Senate Tuesday, a ...