AP analysis shows Texas and California redistricting efforts could mess with rare partisan balance

The Texas House OK'd GOP-favored redistricting. California intends to counter with map of its own

Obama applauds Newsom's California redistricting plan as 'responsible' as Texas GOP pushes new maps

Julio César Chávez Jr. deported to Mexico for alleged cartel ties and drug trafficking

Trump Doral back on a PGA Tour schedule crowded with big tournaments

Federal agent fires weapon during immigration stop in Southern California, officials say

Coastal communities restoring marshes, dunes, reefs to protect against rising seas and storm surges

Searing heat draws visitors to California's Death Valley, where it's tough to communicate the risks

Texas Legislature to take another swing at redistricting vote as Democrats extend their walkout

Trial to start on whether deployment of National Guard to Los Angeles violated federal law

How closely do congressional delegations reflect how people vote? Not very

California rushes to plan a still unscheduled election in US House seats standoff with Texas

Postal inspectors investigating fiery car crash at California post office as an intentional act

3 Democrat-led states have rolled back Medicaid access for people lacking permanent legal status

Questions about surrogacy are raised in case of California couple with house brimming with kids

The Trump administration has revoked $4 billion in federal funding for California's long-delayed high speed rail project.

More than 20 children are in the custody of a California child-welfare agency while authorities investigate a Los Angeles-area couple and whether surrogate mothers around the country were misled.

MP Materials, the operator of the only rare earths mine in the United States, has signed a $500 million deal with Apple.

A group of several dozen Indigenous youth from across the Klamath Basin recently emerged victorious after a month-long journey paddling the Klamath River.

Shane van Gisbergen extended his winning streak to two straight and three victories in the last five weeks with yet another dominating run on a road course.

Debate over President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget-and-policy package is over on Capitol Hill.

A farmworker who fell from a greenhouse roof during a chaotic ICE raid this week at a California cannabis facility has died.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California.

The Trump administration is suing California over its animal welfare laws, claiming they unconstitutionally raised egg prices.

President Donald Trump's administration has sued the California Department of Education for allowing transgender girls to compete on girls sports teams.

President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day.

Julian McMahon, an Australia-born actor who performed in the “Fantastic Four” series of films and appeared in popular TV shows such as “Charmed,” “Nip/Tuck” and “Profiler,” has died.

Popstar Katy Perry and actor Orlando Bloom have split.

Del Monte Foods is filing for bankruptcy protection.

The Trump administration has violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to federal deportation officials last month, says California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Three California men who donned “Michael Myers” Halloween masks during a Sweetwater armed robbery that led to a police shooting and chase on Friday are now facing federal charges, authorities say.

The Trump administration says California must change its policies allowing transgender girls to compete on sports teams consistent with their gender identity.

The Trump administration has found that the California Department of Education and the state’s high school sports federation violated civil rights law by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls sports teams.

A federal judge has partially granted a preliminary injunction that sought to release funds for the build out of electric vehicle chargers in more than a dozen states.

San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. is suing Big League Advance in an attempt to void the future earnings contract he signed as a 17-year-old minor leaguer that could cost him about $34 million.

The body of the last person missing from a boat that capsized on Lake Tahoe in California during a sudden and powerful weekend thunderstorm has been found, bringing the death toll to eight.

Officials say six people were confirmed dead and two others were missing after a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe in California.

Elon Musk’s X has sued to try to stop New York from requiring reports on how social media platforms define and handle problematic posts.

The attorney who negotiated the $2.8 billion legal settlement for the NCAA says thousands of former athletes due to receive damages could have to wait months or maybe more than a year to get paid while appeals play out.

Federal agents have rounded up dozens of California farmworkers in large-scale raids at packinghouses and fields that farm bureaus say threaten businesses that supply much of the country’s food.

After a week of protests over federal immigration raids, about 200 Marines have moved into Los Angeles to guard a federal building and personnel in the city.

The Republican tax bill approved by the House would cost the poorest Americans roughly $1,600 a year while increasing the income of the wealthiest households by an average of $12,000 annually.

President Donald Trump signed a resolution on Thursday that blocks California’s first-in-the-nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called President Donald Trump's military intervention in Los Angeles an assault on democracy.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he deployed them there following protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a measure Thursday that blocks California’s first-in-the-nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s administration say he has the authority to abolish national monuments meant to protect historical and archaeological sites.

The City Council of San Jose, California, is voting on a controversial proposal that would make homeless people eligible for arrest if they reject three offers of housing.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has filed an emergency motion in federal court to block National Guard members and Marines from assisting with immigration raids in Los Angeles.

President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of an additional 2,000 National Guard members to help respond to protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Donald Trump is “pulling a military dragnet” across Los Angeles during a brief public address on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump called protesters in Los Angeles “animals” and “a foreign enemy” in a speech at Fort Bragg as he defended deploying the military on those protesting his immigration enforcement.

Financial aid fraud is exploding, thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence.

The public fight between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump keeps intensifying, with name calling, insults and accusations traded over television and social media networks.

A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders that LGBTQ+ rights organizations say are unconstitutional.

Local residents in one Los Angeles-area community cleaned up streets and erased graffiti while expressing dismay at the damage caused during violent clashes between protesters and immigration authorities over the weekend.

President Donald Trump is thanking an appeals court for freezing an order that he return control of National Guard troops to California.

California lawmakers advanced several reform measures this week to rein in utility profits, slash electricity bills and potentially save consumers billions of dollars.

New figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that 22% of U.S. residents spoke a language other than English at home.

When the threat of wildfires has forced power to be cut in the tourist town of Calistoga, California, on the edge of Napa Valley, it’s meant firing up a bank of noisy, polluting diesel generators.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for environmentalists who despair at the the approach of President Donald Trump’s administration: “Stop whining and get to work.”.

A transgender athlete has won two girls events at the California high school track and field championship.

The popular Mexican regional music band Grupo Firme has announced that it's cancelling a performance in a music festival in California over the weekend after the Trump administration decided to suspend the musicians’ visas.

It’s been an eventful year for defender Naomi Girma, who not only moved to a new country but also dealt with an injury before winning a pair of trophies with Chelsea.

The California high school track-and-field championship has kicked off to a relatively quiet atmosphere.

California is opening up its track-and-field championship to more girls after a transgender athlete drew controversy for qualifying for the meet.

Four months into the Trump administration, some top Democrats are rethinking their approach to podcasts.

Researchers are beginning to wonder if blockbuster drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound could play a role in preventing cancer.

The Senate has voted to block California’s first-in-the nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

Senate Republicans have voted to establish a new precedent that will allow them to roll back clean air standards in California, including a rule phasing out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

Memorial Day is a popular time to buy a car.

U.S. wildlife officials want to add a rare Nevada fish to the list of endangered species.

President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to merge the government’s wildland firefighting efforts into a single agency.

The U.S. Senate will move this week to block California from enforcing a series of vehicle emissions standards that are tougher than the federal government’s, including first-in-the-nation rules phasing out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

A law enforcement official says the person believed responsible for an explosion at a California fertility clinic posted online ramblings including a belief that the world should not be populated.

After a wildfire decimated a California high school’s newsroom, one of the first offers of help that its journalism adviser received came from the other side of the country.

Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, maker of blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy, says its CEO is stepping down.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state is staring down an $12 billion budget deficit.

State Farm can soon start raising premiums by 17% for its California home insurance customers.

Officials say a thumbprint on a carton of cigarettes has led to an arrest nearly half a century after a young California woman was strangled to death.

A coalition of 20 state Democratic attorneys general say that the Trump administration is threatening to withhold billions of dollars in transportation and disaster-relief funds unless states agree to certain immigration enforcement actions.

California’s governor once again called upon the state’s cities and counties to ban homeless encampments.

A new study shows that people Zepbound lost about 50% more weight than those using Wegovy.

Federal officials say at least 10 people in the U.S. have been sickened in a listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat food products, and a producer is voluntarily recalling several items.

Aaron Judge celebrated his return to the Sacramento area by hitting two home runs in a losing effort for the New York Yankees against the Athletics to extend his major league lead to 14.

Jasson Dominguez hit three homers and drove in seven runs to lead the New York Yankees to a 10-2 victory over the Athletics on Friday night.

The NCAA Men’s Basketball Rules Committee has recommended video reviews of out-of-bounds calls only be initiated by coach’s challenge.

Kenyan literary giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is 87 and has struggled with his health in recent years, but he still hopes to complete a new book.

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months.

OpenAI is reversing course and said Monday its nonprofit will continue to control the business that makes ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products.

Officials say a small boat believed to be carrying migrants capsized off San Diego's Pacific coast, leaving three people dead, four injured and seven others missing.

President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again.

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that's been closed for more than 60 years.

As the federal government rolls back fishing restrictions in the Pacific Remote Islands, California is reviewing its network of marine protected areas.

Researchers say Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years.

A voter-approved tax on sugary drinks has taken effect in the beachside community of Santa Cruz on the California coast.

Instagram and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. posted better-than-expected results Wednesday for the first quarter thanks to strong advertising revenue on its social media platforms.

The new chief executive of California’s embattled high-speed rail project says it is time to get serious about how to pay for it.

Meta Platforms Inc. is hosting its first generative artificial intelligence conference for developers, LlamaCon, on Tuesday.

California-raised singer-songwriter Jensen McRae makes folk-pop the internet adores.