SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Despite signs that California’s latest and most damaging wave of the pandemic is subsiding, the state nonetheless sets a one-day record of 764 deaths on Friday. The jarring total comes as hospitalizations fell 10% over the last two weeks while the state’s testing positivity...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Claims of excessive force, retaliation, and other misconduct by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will be probed during a C, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Friday. Becerra called the inquiry into the nation’s largest sheriff’s department an...

In what some hailed as the most important speech at an inauguration in modern American history, President Joe Biden called for a new era of unity and healing as he pledged to bring an end to the pandemic that has dramatically altered the lives of every American while leading the restoration of a battered...

WASHINGTON — Almost directly after taking the oath as President of the United States, Joe Biden on his first day in office is expected to reverse a number of his predecessor’s policies and federal agency standards. The transition team for the 46th President of the United States announced the moves...

WASHINGTON — Concluding with his oath to faithfully uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution, Joseph R. Biden became the 46th president of the United States at noon Wednesday. It was an inauguration unlike any before it, in a town Biden knows all too well, having served in the halls of the U.S. Senate...

OAKLAND — California fired back on the Trump administration’s eleventh-hour attempt to gut the Endangered Species Act before the president left office Wednesday. A federal lawsuit led by state Attorney General Xavier Becerra targets two final rules issued in December — the “Habitat Definition...

After nearly a year of lockdowns, social distancing, widespread infection, and COVID-19-related death in Los Angeles, residents are preparing for the next chapter of the pandemic: vaccination distribution. During a town hall Tuesday, L.A. County health officials said two major roadblocks could complicate...

SACRAMENTO — California’s holiday COVID-19 wave appears to have crested, with state officials announcing Tuesday that hospitalizations and new infections are starting to decrease for the first time in weeks. In the most upbeat pandemic briefing of the new year, California Health and Human Services...

SACRAMENTO — As coronavirus cases spiked to record highs and spurred statewide lockdowns this past summer, Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature have scrambled to devise a COVID-19 aid plan for the state’s nearly $10 billion share of federal CARES Act funding. Several months into the...

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal class action filed Friday claims Bank of America failed to secure debit cards containing unemployment benefits for millions of Californians, leading to widespread fraud and making some cardholders unable to access needed funds during a pandemic. Bank of America has an exclusive...