A federal judicial panel on Thursday denied Gov. Jerry Brown's request to lift a court-ordered prison population cap and threatened him and other state officials with contempt of court if they fail to comply.
Parents who don't have their children vaccinated will have to get a waiver from the doctor's office before enrolling their children in school under a new California law.
Prop 30 would hike the sales tax by a quarter of a cent and impose an income tax increase of up to 2 per cent on the state's highest wage earners, earning from 250 thousand to a million dollars a year.
Governor Jerry Brown has signed the transportation bill that provides funding for the first phase of construction on California's High Speed Rail project.
Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor is giving a less-optimistic projection of tax revenue than the one contained in Governor Jerry Brown's $92-billion proposal for the coming fiscal year.
A Clemency request for the convicted child killer in Southern California is sitting in the governor's office on Tuesday. The grandmother of eight-year-old Adam Carbajal, a shaken baby, says she'll do whatever she can to stop that filing.
Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday that he is working to win support from business and labor leaders for his plan to ask voters to raise income taxes on high-income earners.
The United Nations' top climate official has lauded California's efforts to help mitigate global warming but said the state needs to more quickly adapt to its risks.
Gov. Jerry Brown says he is filing a ballot initiative to ask California voters to increase taxes on themselves to generate more money for schools and public safety.