California Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday there was a COVID cases surge of 45% in the state in the past week compared to the week prior, leading the state to add to a list of counties under intense monitoring by health officials. Local public health directors across California have boosted the number...

SACRAMENTO — Democratic lawmakers on Friday sent California Governor Gavin Newsom a COVID-era budget that replaces education and social services funding depleted by the pandemic by pulling billions from the state’s once-healthy reserves, slashing state workers’ pay and halting business tax breaks. Approved...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked Imperial County officials to reimpose stay at home orders Friday after the Southern California border county saw a 23% positivity rate in COVID-19 testing in the past two weeks. California health officials are closely monitoring positivity rates in 15 counties, but...

Spurred by mass protests demanding an end to racism and police violence in Los Angeles County, officials from the third-largest transportation agency in the nation voted Thursday to probe transit police use of force standards and pursue alternatives to armed officers patrolling buses, trains and platforms. The...

President Donald Trump illegally circumvented Congress’ “power of the purse” by transferring $2.5 billion in Department of Defense funds to construct portions of the border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico, the Ninth Circuit found Friday in a pair of rulings. In a 102-page ruling (see...

Gov. Gavin Newsom Wednesday threatened to use “the power of the purse” to ensure local compliance with state mandates to curb a record spike in the COVID-19 pandemic. He emphasized $2.5 billion of the next budget won’t be parsed out to counties that fail to follow health care guidelines during...

For three days in a row, Los Angeles County saw a spike of 2,000 new daily cases of COVID-19, marking some of the fastest spreads of the novel coronavirus in the nation. “While many of us are done with this virus, unfortunately, this virus is not done with us,” said L.A. County Public Health Director...

SACRAMENTO — Capping a hectic stretch of negotiations shortened and complicated by the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a California budget deal with lawmakers Monday to patch the state’s shattered finances. “The COVID-19 global pandemic has caused a sudden and dramatic change...

SACRAMENTO — The soft reopening of the largest economy in the United States couldn’t stem California’s abysmal unemployment rate as officials on Friday pegged the state’s jobless rate above 16%. Jeffrey Clemens, economics professor at University of California, San Diego, says the snapshot suggests...

By Nathan Solis LOS ANGELES (CN) – Just weeks before health orders effectively shut down the nation due to the novel coronavirus, Los Angeles County voters waited for hours to cast their vote in the March primary election. What should have been the public introduction of a new $300 million voting system...