Some red flag warnings still in effect until 3 p.m. While most red flag warnings that were issued for parts of Southern California have expired, red flag warnings for the Santa Susana Mountains ...

California lawmakers passed roughly 1,200 bills last year, including some that resulted in unforeseeable wins by Republicans, promising protections for consumers and small strides for those in the ...

Scores of new California laws are going into effect in 2025 after Gov. Gavin Newsom took action on hundreds of bills that crossed his desk last year. Among the legislation Newsom signed into law ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Reeling from destructive wildfires, including the deadliest in California history, state lawmakers in 2020 passed new requirements for clearing combustible materials like ...

Although President-elect Donald Trump has not yet taken office, the government of California is not standing for it. Whatever it is, they’re against it. “Lawyers from the Attorney General’s ...

Until recently, neither could California sparkling wines compete, by and large, except as poor stand-ins for Champagne. But no longer. In the last decade a new breed of California sparkling wine ...

LOS ANGELES—On a typical weekday, lunch hour is bustling at Toscana Brentwood, a popular restaurant with the Hollywood elite where it isn’t uncommon to see Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom passed big changes to laws this year, and many go into effect in 2025. The 2025 slate of new California laws includes protections for actors in Hollywood against artificial ...

New safeguards against artificial intelligence deepfakes. The California Legislature passed hundreds of bills in 2024, many of which go into effect on Jan. 1 and touch nearly every aspect of life ...

Consumer protection laws, new banking and rental regulations, and medical debt reforms are part of a bevy of new California laws that will go into place when the calendar flips to 2025.

Despite all the noise surrounding the “California exodus,” or mass migration out of the country’s most populous state, California grew in population in 2024 — although that growth wasn’t massive. The ...

THE BUZZ: CROUCH AND DEFEND — President Donald Trump already has California Democrats on their heels over the state’s sanctuary immigration laws. Kevin de León, the former Democratic leader ...